Our Brown World

In Jersey City, where I live, whites are a minority of 21% (we were about 70% when I immigrated here from Essex County in 1971), blacks (Afro-Americans) are a minority of 25%, the majority are various shades of brown (Asian, Hispanic, Arabic, and so forth.) We live in a Brown World. The black/white model no longer applies. It is all complicated, nuanced, rich, deep and fascinating. Consider: In the USA, those who inherit the genes and culture of Southern slaves are entirely different from the darker peoples who come here directly from Africa or the islands. Our current president is NOT Afro-American: his mother was a white, cosmopolitan, secular anthropologist; his father a leftist, polygamist African...that comes out to some kind of brown. George Zimmerman is not white: he would never have been admitted to a standard, racist, elite white country club. Many Afro-Americans, who in Haiti would be "whites," are actually brown...beautifully so...think Halle Berry! It is a rich, variegated, dense world we live in. The Al Sharptons of the world need to wake up, get with the times, snap out of the "racism obsession" and smell the flowers.