Recently aging Black Panther-ette terrorist Angela Davis learned that she is a descendant of both black slaves but also white plantation slave owners.
She was repulsed and sickened by the news she is part Caucasian.
I say so what. I'm highly likely part black African, and it simply doesn't matter any more than my Irish and Quaker parts, like at all. Based upon where half of my ancesters hail from, going back millenia, it is all but certain I'm part African. Big shrug.
Immutable physical characteristics aren't an "accomplishment" or a legitimate "source of pride".
I can't understand how passively acquired features matter any more than Julia Roberts' beauty mole. Being born male or female, of whatever skin color, in any particular place, under whatever circumstances are simply random acts of Providence for each of us. Not a basis for boasting.
The KKK and BLM are both insane. Both deeply racist, terribly divisive and offensive.
Cultural celebrations of Irish-ness, Italian-ness, Greek-ness, Appalachian-ness, African-ness, Chinese-ness, Lebanese-ness, Chilean-ness, English-ness - Yippee! Knock yourselves out with positivity and fun! But don't wave your supremacist flag at me - and that goes for Angela Davis and her Communist Party of America chums.
Davis was criminally convicted (later overturned on technicalities) of supplying guns used by her co-conspirators to kill 4 people inside a Marin County California courtroom.
She later moved to East Germany - while it was a satellite state of the Soviet Union - and was awarded the Lenin Prize by the USSR for her anti-American writings and speeches.
Now isn't Providence a special kind of comeuppance for an America hater and a racist who reviles "white" people - whatever "white" now means to people like her and former President Obama and literally millions of our fellow mixed race citizens. You know, like me too.
Ultimately, if we are to honor Dr. Martin Luther King's admonition, it isn't important what 23-&-Me has to say about your tribe or skin color. It's the content of your character.
Maybe in her old age, Angela Davis will come to understand that she isn't a slave or a slave master. Their values, sorrows, and oppression do not get innately "born into" a person.
We are what we do with our lives. "Rise up!" indeed, and teach your children well.
