Break Out Of Your Box

Don’t you resent being labeled by either the Republicans or the Democrats as to how you are going to vote?  The truth is, you are not Hispanic.  You are not a Black Afro-American.  You are not a White or a Jew.  You are an individual, you are an American citizen, and you have the freedom to make up your own mind and vote as you choose.

I’ll let you in on a little secret.  My people are from Europe, from Prussia (which no longer exists) and Slovinia (which again exists after being Yugoslavia for a time)  So the pollsters would dump me in the White box with the English, the Germans, the Russians, the Spanish, the French, the Italians, and so on.  But here’s the bigger secret:  Nobody belongs in the White box.  Or in the Black, the Red, the Brown, the Yellow, or any other boxes.  They are illusionary boundaries set out to hem in the herds for this or that reason. 

Now I would be the last to deny cultural differences, linguistic difficulties, or human impatience, greed and ignorance.  But there are no boxes, no rigid walls that separate us, no quick and easy ways to define who and what we are. 

And here is the biggest secret of them all:  those simple DNA tests that you can get will prove the fakery of the Box System of dividing people into alien groups.  I’ll give you a good example.  If you go back a few generations, my wife is a mix of English, Irish, German and Norwegian.  But her DNA reveals that she is descended in historic times to French people, and in pre-historic times through Spain to Africa.  So does that put her in some sort of White-Brown-Black box?  Or does it cause you to suspect the rigid walls of the box may not represent the way things really are?