Identity News, Color Blues, & Ethnic Dues, Part One

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.'

The most recent Nobelist of color guides those willing to follow to the most crucial reason for abandoning 'race' as an organizing principle, for rejecting 'racism' as the causal agent of oppression and exploitation and vicious inequity: no matter one's 'good intentions,' insisting on racial categories lets the real factors that cause our woes escape notice; insisting on racial categories gives elites the chance to 'toss a bone' to the crushed masses that does nothing to change fundamental problems; insisting on racial categories, in a busy and crowded world, will always cause opportunity costs since one can only do so much, meaning that the real causative elements receive short shrift or no attention at all.

Whatever else the Spindoctor is, he is not a complete idiot. He does not expect these notes to be popular. He realizes that busy people with many beautiful ideas of their own will resist even delving into this oeuvre, let alone reading it all.

Nevertheless, to those who don't insist on obfuscation or denial--ah, the river in Egypt--this much must be clear. We are all cousins, unless we have an even closer kinship. The differences among us are tiny, relative to our genetic code, our biological template.

Whatever the case may be, this recounting of a body of work is not an excuse to continue in the same vein, though I might do so in ways that would continue, at a minimum, in interesting and engaging me. Instead, the purpose of this intellectual overview was to provide a basis for introducing an extremely personal, extremely observantly-lived existence that has--almost literally on occasion--burst with the contradictions of the rainbow coloration of the human condition--sort of a 'Color in the Life of Cousin Jimbo' narrative for all to ponder who see fit to do so.

This is a first installment. A continuation, quite quickly, is forthcoming. That's a promise, not a threat.

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