this is one of Emrie's favorite friends. Their name is Purple.
My grand children are mixed. Biracial. Half Black, half White. Emrie, my BeLov~ed Emrie is multiracial. Half her mixed mother, half her father who is of El Salvadoran people. Emrie's mother, my Alyssia, has a spanish last name; her marriage to her son Julian's father who is of Puerto Rican people. Emrie carries her father's spanish last name. Emrie and Alyssia are brown skinned. We are all American.
We are all American.
I am stunned that i am writing that, twice, now 3 times, We are all American.
on the weekend, Alyssia and Emrie will fly to visit Emrie's father and his family of many Aunts and cousins, a grandma. To Texas. To the state where the child cages are. And i am afraid. Things happen in airports nowdays. and I understand that probably half of the population of these United States don't mind. I am not afraid of Trump. He is almost beside the point. I am afraid because i understand that probably half of my fellow citizens don't mind. My lifelong drift in white privilege is over.
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