What Do You Think Of This Wish?

[Syrinx]

I wish that some "white" cities, like Seattle, Portland, Sioux Falls, would have black mayors.

And some "black" cities, like Atlanta, Birmingham, and Detroit, would have white mayors.

What I mean really, I wish race didn't matter in getting elected.

[countryjake]

1. Norm Rice was mayor of Seattle...

for two terms and the King County Executive is Ron Sims.

But I agree with you, in that I wish race didn't matter, at all. This nation has a long long way to go to fix that problem.

[Syrinx]

2. I knew I was in trouble...

When I started naming cities I know nothing about. LOL!

[Ecumenist]

3. Me too, Syyrinx...

I don't look at people as colours. Grew up in a historically mixed family, ( African, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw, Blackfoot, Mikosukee, Irish, Scottish, English, French, Spanish,German) and married a REAL texan, Bohemian Czech , my youngest brother is married to a Bosnian Serb Girl, we have a Greek part of the family in Michigan,( most of my michigan cousins married Greeks and a few Arabs), favourite cousin married A Scandinavian girl and they have a lovely daughter. I said all this to say that I concur with what you've expressed. It's so sad that the only thing people really see,( if they're honest with themselves), is the colour of the skin of people especially when it comes to all things political and positions of power.

I fell in love with the man I married because of who he is, not what he is. If he had been african american, I still would have married him because of what his personality is. I wish people could understand how much better this world would be if we would learn to live and let live. Look beyond colour, creed, class, religion, nationalty.... If people who stop believing that somehow money, prestige and power imparts a superiority, we wouldn't find ourselves with the mess we now have on our hands now.

I believe that there is beginning to be more and more people who believe like we do than who are still like people like bush, cheney and freeper types. We need to work together, in spite of what those in power may threaten us with. We need to leave a better world behind for our children than that which was bequeathed to us by our parents and grandparents. Funnily enough, it's isn't race that matters because we're all one race: HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS... Not homo sapiens Africanus, homo sapiens americanus or even homo sapiens Asiaticus. If you ask people how use the false construct of "race" to explain in real scientific terms what, if there really are different races, what was the name of the various races and differentiations that make them separate populations.

The thing I love to tell folks who persist in believing and promulgating this idiotic theory is that in a very real way the word "Race" can be use interchangeably with "Species". I love to tell them that the best example to explain this is the union of a horse and donkey, which results in a mule. Most often, Mules are infertile. That doesn't happen with humans. The difference in colours can best be explained using horses. You'll never see a Dappled Gray Stallion turning away from a Chestnut mare in heat. This is a direct analogy to human beings. Of course, this throws them each and every time.

I wish people would see things as they should one another and instead of making choices on external appearances, really looking at what the person will contribute and make positive changes and preserving human kindness in government.