Racism???

Read a news report about Ibram X. Kendi who won the National Book Award a few years ago for Stamped from the beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 

He has a new book about how to be anti-racist coming out Tuesday.

The report was in the NY Times and several things caught my attention. One - he taught at the University of Florida and so was a Gator... as is/was Deanne. Second he asserts that no one or thing is a non-racist instead all are either racists or anti-racist. I plan to get a copy of his books and read them and consider such ideas COMING FROM the perspective of things and people being on a CONTINUUM ... In other words -- view ideas and people on a line with one end being ANTI-RACIST and the other end being NON-RACIST.... 

HOWEVER - now that I write it down and as I seek some middle ground of peace and love I wonder ??? What is the appropriate continuum. I DO BELIEVE a continuum is a good model if the points on that continuum include all possibilities as best possible in a one-dimensional plane.

NOW HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS... ON THE FLY:
SO - for people, ideas, times, etc... the continuum might be: Multi-racial pluralism on one end and Mono-racial purity on the other end. In the middle would be acceptance and tolerance of both extremes with protective rules, laws, customs, etc to ensure peace and equality.

I do need to read more!

Let me say something personal.... Once upon a time I did not think African-American women were pretty, etc... I saw them, the few I saw, as different and not beautiful as I understood beauty. Then I worked in an office with many African-Americans and noticed many different looks AND I got ot know people on a personal level. I saw beauty of various types. I opened to news appreciations. I am better for that awareness I gained in the mid-70's!