You cannot always tell someone’s cultural descendantcy by the color of their skin, or their political idealology. My direct male line is Norse. I am a Viking. We were assassins, we had some land and no one wants to anger a family of assassins. But when the first inquisition came, all that changed. In Switzerland, we painted a bloody trail across the Alps as we escaped into France in the cold of winter. A journey that would take 12 days walking and horses will die.

Impoverished when the second inquisition came, we were given a month to leave or die by execution. A pirate named Jean Lafitte gave us passage in exchange for indentured servitude. We spent months in the slave hold, going to Africa first to pick up slaves and bring them to the Port of New Orleans.

For two generations we worked. And finally we paid our debt and became sharecroppers. We were ran off our land by Confederates. We joined the Caddo tribe and robbed the port, freeing slaves and stealing guns and horses. My blood flows with African and Native blood. That’s provable by DNA testing, my father and I had one, during genealogy research.

But for anyone to look at me, people see my white skin and assume, I’m rich, my family was slave owners and that I am racist.

How is that not Racism in itself, to simply assume that I hold some hate for you?

Assumed identification of race is Racism. The idea of race is also flawed. It’s unscientific. Darwin laughed at it. That five specimens could identify the entire world. There is no such thing as race.

To hate what you think I am, because of the tone of my skin is racist. Stop calling people Black or White. Nothing is as simple as that. There is no purity, no absolute. We are all genetically mutated and mixed. There is no evidence to suggest that we evolved separately.

We are all apes. Some are smart enough to figure this out, but human design is so evolved, we literally have Neanderthals with brains of mush running around not understanding that interbreeding with close relatives will bring about some master race.

Our bodies are evolved either by the divine hand of god or by serious circumstances. From a rodent to what we are now. I believe that some rat crawled up a tree clung on to a branch and hit predators with a stick. Which would be really smart if the ground was frozen and you were hungry, this would make you top of the food chain. Because you could simply take a hearty animal and get it to chase you and hit it in the head and kill it.

I’ve never seen a Chimpanzee do that, but hang from a tree and hit people in the head. Likewise, a sniper rifle on top of a building. It’s an awesome tactic. For monkeys to figure this out, would make them almost involunerable in the wild.

This is our shared culture, rising from the earth and taking the lead over much heartier animals.

I have zero white guilt and I am upset that you would still define people by color. You cannot define cultural experience by the color of someone’s skin. It’s a mutation. It would be easy to see that if we had spots on our skin like dogs. There’s no real reason for it, just that it holds some trait, not even anything to do with melanin, just white is more popular in snow and ice. Probably because we wear lots of clothes in those areas.

Reducing race to a mutation makes racists angry. And don’t be fooled, anyone can be racist all it takes is to assume that the content of a person’s character and culture is defined by the color of their skin. Race is Fiction, Racism is real.