Half Breed

 My supervisor in the military was a dark African American but what most people didn't know was he was half white. He grew up in Memphis in an all African American community. He was one of the best supervisors I ever had. He was quiet and restrained and didn't talk much to anyone. I rode many of nights with just me and him and after a while he started talking about his childhood. The other kids in his neighborhood called him names such as redbone and others I cant repeat. They made fun of him relentlessly and made him feel like he was a lesser person because of his white mother. He said it was non stop and he never had friends that would stick up for him. He spent his whole life with his head down but they never broke his spirit. He would join the Air Force and become one of the most amazing men I would ever had the honor of serving with.

 

Prejudice is a serious problem all the way around. Everybody points the finger at someone else and talks about how bad white people are or Chinese or Arabian or Mexican American or African American or Port Rican or a thousands of other ways we define ourselves. Then we make it worse by dividing ourselves even further. This is a problem that's never going to get solved. It will dog us to our dying days and probable the end of mankind. I'm not saying it is right because nothing could be further from the truth, I'm just being realistic. Someone will always hate you for no reason and that's a fact. Right now we have an opportunity in the United States to change this forever but it has to come from the younger generation. It's too later for ours. We need to start at home. Don't pass your stupidity to your children and if you already have it's not to late to recant.

 

Sometimes you just have to tell your adult kids Hey I missed up and didn't know what I was talking about and explain to them why you were wrong. Your grandkids futures are in your hands. It isn't the same world you grew up in and it's changing rapidly. Do you really want your grandkids to be the outcast that gets fired for spewing some dumb crap that you told your kids. If you don't care about this or your family you won't be reading this anyway so I'm not worried about pissing anyone off. Have a great day and remember the best time to start to change is right now.