I Passed for White and Straight, Even Though I'm Not -- How Looks Hide My Identity

[M0rpheus]

44. I assume nothing.

Mostly because I don't really care that much, and the internet has taught me that anyone can be behind that keyboard. My answer is the same regardless of your ethnicity.

I've chosen to take people at face value, rather than make assumptions, pending further evidence. As a result, I've made some really good friends/contacts but, I've also been burned badly.

I'd love to just be "A Person". To myself, I am just that. Outside of my self-perception, it's considerably different in the real world. The onus is not on me to change how people perceive me, when I do nothing to engender a negative response past existing. It's not my assumptions that are the problem.

There may come a day when organizations formed as a reaction to inequality are no longer needed, but it ain't today.

The groups are not the problem. They weren't 50 years ago and, they aren't today. The inequality those groups result from is still the problem. When you count all the intersections from there, it's an even bigger one. Would you argue that groups that serve LGBT, or women also be eliminated as obsolete?

Should it come to pass that I'm no longer a minority, then I'll be me (as I always am, to myself). If asked, I'll still Identify as a black man as, that is a part of who I am.
I don't long for a world of varying shades of beige. Homogeneity, is not the answer.
I long for a world where my particular shade of brown provides me with no assumptions on my intelligence, responsibility or, criminality.

When that occurs, I'll call up GWB and ask if he's still using that "Mission Accomplished" sign.