oops, i did it again!

brought up the race issue. a friend was troubled by this, but here is my response:

i was not saying at all anything about why anyone does not succeed. merely commenting on being a minority. the thing about it is, people say, race doesn't matter, and why bring it up. but when your see through this set of eyes, you see that it does matter.

a dear friend of mine explained her experience, of being in an all black church. she and her friend were the only whites there. she could detail most everything about the experience.

i told her, imagine living your life that way.

the thing about it is, we are so comfortable around our own that the biases and lack of diversity that seems to surround me (there are lots of minorities in texas, but they clump together and none of them clump around me...why is that?)

and i was just making an observation.

my husband and i mentioned manifest destiny, and it struck me how all the paintings were caucasian (esp. the christ figures and the madonna) and it seems any trace of a minority ethnicity has been lost. he was jewish after all. middle eastern. last middle eastern person i saw wan't snowy white.

but all this talk of skin color isn't politically correct nor comfortable is it? but look around and notice who fills your life.

no blame there. just take stock.