I think one of the biggest frustrations I have with this is most of the everyday people I know and have ever interacted with in the various parts of the country and world I’ve been to, they don’t see or care about this. People are people, which is how it’s supposed to be.

Where things have gone sideways, is the intentional division and separation of people so that groups get marginalized and fighting. I wholeheartedly think this emphasis on skin color and race is a massive distraction of focus away from the real issues that are plaguing us and the world. The banking system is destroying us, politicians are stealing our money and future, wars are being started and fought strictly for profits, criminals being intentionally released. The world is a messed up place. These are all massive issues and not in our best interest as average citizens! Instead all that’s talked about is things of racial nature, preferences, sexual identities. Things that shouldn’t make a damn difference between two people that interact and are friends, partners, lovers or anything in between. We have a lot of things we could be focused on and working towards fixing and improving if we stopped focusing on things that really shouldn’t matter!

Growing up some of my best friends were Cambodian, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, Russian and certainly many of European descent but we were all just teenagers and Americans! Didn’t see any of that bullshit division stuff. Didn’t care about it either, because we are just people.

I think it’s a shame that we have to spend so much time on these things that shouldn’t matter at all but some get disillusioned and make it more of an issue than it needs to be. I am not saying that your perspective isn’t important because it is, but I think we should stop focusing on these things as a society, exactly the way Martin Luther king did. It should be how someone acts, Carrie’s themselves rather than things like this.

Many years ago I dated a girl from west Africa somewhere, I forget where. She was a beautiful girl and was dark as night and we had a good time for a while but we were in different spots on our path so we parted ways but I was glad to have had the opportunity. I didn’t see her as a black girl, I saw someone that was attractive but she was a fascinating woman and was indeed beautiful, dark skin and all. The only strange looks we got was from some really old people but everyone else didn’t have a care in the world, as it should be. Just two young people dating.