I don't need a patio, but you can pour a driveway for me.Well I missed out on a few pages. Some of it good, some of it convoluted self-contradictory crap. I was wondering if there was some common ground to be reached, or if I needed to change my thinking on some things. But after trying, I'm right back where I started. Maybe I'm talking to the wrong person, or in the wrong setting.
So after all this, it's still: I don't care about your race. All I care about is your character. Can you do the job? Are you honest? Are you compassionate? What talents do you have, and are you developing them? I have my culture and you have yours. I respect those differences. If your heritage is a big deal to you, that's great. But it isn't to me. I don't care about my own geneology beyond curiosity. I don't care if you just got here (legally), your grandpa was a slave, or there's a castle back in England with your name on it, and your family came over in the 1600's. It's interesting, but it doesn't matter. Even if you care, I still don't. I will go shooting with you, help you move, pour your concrete patio, share dinner at my place or yours with our families. But my relationships with people will continue to be built individually, and based upon character. And I will continue to have limited concern for things I can not affect.
I can't help but think if more people took this attitude, instead of looking upon every racist interaction between two individuals as something that requires a national movement and government "solutions", that social conditions wouldn't be nearly as poor in this country as they are currently.