Whenever I have to fill out a document and identify my “Race,” I’m always presented with choices like “White,” and “Black,” and “Hispanic.” Usually, there’s also the choice of “Native American.” At this point I realize how stupid race identifiers are, because I have Anglo-Saxon and Native American ancestry. Am I white? Am I Native American? No. I’m both. So why do I have to choose something that’s just not true?

In this context, I also realize how stupid race-based policies and politics are. We are truly being used as rubes by those who need us to be divided so they can continue to cultivate power and wealth. We should realize that none of us can identify as belonging purely to one race. Are we going to go back to the days of the middle ages where you needed to prove your lineage in order to find your role in society? Ludicrous.

Just because you see me walking down the street and I have white skin is no reason to hate me. You don’t know me and you don’t know my heritage. Hate based on color, or any emotion or policy based on color is a fabrication, a ruse, a lie.

Imagine asking someone, “Yeah, you’re black, but how black are you?”