Hey white people...its on us!

[Moonwalk]

16. It is up to the white people, and there may be hope for that, in spite of this case....

...and the damnable voting laws, etc. I know it seems like we're going backwards, and we are on the surface, but there are some very deep changes happening in white people which could make them finally do their job.

Like the fact that many young voters had four years of a black president. Like in the fact that there neighborhoods with racial mixes as well as schools and people aren't growing up seeing and knowing only their own race--or knowing only their own race as the home owners and every other race as the servants. They know other races as neighbors and fellow parents and such. Like the fact that there are far more interracial marriages and this means that even entrenched old white folk now have mixed race grandchildren.

As with gay politics, the personal can become very political. As with Obama's white grandparents, the grandparents of mixed race children may no longer be on the Zimmerman side of the fence. Because they now have a kid in their life who could be a Trayvon.

And that, if nothing else, might be edging us white folk to get rid of racism. On the surface, it may seem otherwise, because the last hurrah of racists got elected and pulled every trick in the book to have their way with this country. Same as the homophobes still trying to keep Prop. 8 alive and fighting. But underneath, there may be an earthquake coming. I sure hope so. And maybe, just maybe this is the first crack in that bigoted surface.