There are Only Two Types of People - Black & White
As many other Hillary Clinton supporters watched the Rules and Bylaws Committe meet on May 31, 2008 in dismay of the back room deals that we can clearly see occurred over dinner the night before and lunch during the C-Span break, we are in no way accepting the votes of the committee today. I noticed that several people of color were seated at the 30 person committee. I am proud of my representative Mona Pasquil, a third generation from the Philippines. The one thing that I can see now is that We the People who are not Black or White are Not Represented.
Our grandparents who came to the United Stats of America were recruited to come as immigrant farm workers. My own grandfather and his cousins worked as a migrant farm worker in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Texas. During those years, those men were not allowed to bring spouses to the United States. In the California Senate, the legislatures made speeches to propose a law to ban the marriage between “The Philippine Monkey Men and Our Hispanic farm workers.” How dare the Democratic National Committee divide the United States into Two Types of People - Black or White?
First, the laws banning inter-racial marriage were fought as a Civil Right. However, any Bible Carrying Member of the Mayflower Family knows that there are Unnamed Women who were Native American mothers to the Children of our nation since the dawn of colonialism. How dare the Democratic National Committee ignore the millions of Americans who are neither Black nor White but maybe both or other? We are now seeing that the Two Voting Constituents which count are not the Rest of America who are like those in Puerto Rico and Florida are not one race or another. Some, like myself being three or more ethnicities. We the People who are the product of previous bans and near bans of inter-racial marriage are now seeing that We Are Invisible. We may be invisible in our Votes but We are Visible in the Streets.
Obama could have been an Inter-racial Candidate. He could have unified the Party. Yet, he chose his Father’s Skin. Hillary Clinton is also a descendent of Native Americans and her Blood needs to become Visible. Like the millions of babies born under the prohibition of inter-racial marriage, we must recognize all of the children who are Native American and otherwise not by blood white or black. We the People will be seeing Doctor Kings, Jr.’s dream and he was not dreaming in Black and White.
May 31, 2008 Article moved from democrats.org
And what a great article it is.
I can relate to how you feel, my grandfather on my fathers side was from the phillipines and came to Hawaii to make a better life for himself. He work all his life in the sugar cane fields and lived on a plantation. The fields and plantation are all gone and replaced by homes and now called pearl city hights.
This country is to fixed on black and white and need to start looking at all of us as Human beings, as Americans. Yes Obama could have spoken out but he has no moral convictions, and his chose of mentor and friends speaks of this.