Hi Kaye. White people tell me I'm not White, regularly and most people my age agree. I grew up in Virginia, in Redneck Land, I was never White to them. Younger people of color insist I am and say I have no problems with harassment, exclusion, or bad behavior which has never been true. Whether we have a different race or not, White supremacists insist we want to replace them and need to be exterminated.

So it's pretty weird to get this treatment from both sides. Getting called a dirty Jew and "gross' for not calling myself White today was quite interesting. I'm not letting others define me. Regardless of color, I'm part of a 1% minority as is Rivka. And I've never been as convinced as I am now that we are not safe. Other people who are White are still identifiable as minorities, for example my friend who is Ukrainian who hasn’t been able to get a job and who has been harassed for being Russian. So I think the colorism has limited value over minority state.

And yet some minorities are more likely to die over being minorities from a systemic level. Few can dispute that those of African and Indigenous decent are most likely to die of being IDd.