like i said, i appreciated the majority of your article…it was just that last piece that didn’t sit well with me.

in response to your comment…believe me, i am the last one to tote around a stick up my butt…i believe there is a time to laugh and there is a time to be serious. and i *definitely* think that we should all be able to poke fun at ourselves.

but that last part of your article (”I guess things could be worse, though. We could be Asian.”) — can you speak to that? i leave room for the fact that i may have misunderstood or taken it a different way that you intended….

i don’t think that a good route for any of us “grays”/mixed people to go is to alienate ourselves from other communities of color. for one, we are all a part of these communities, second, what good ever comes from this kind of “you have it worse/i have it worse” game?

perhaps i am naive, but i would rather stand together than separately from other sisters and brothers of color. i consider an affront to the black community an affront to me, a stab at the latino community, a stab at me. an insult to the asian community, an insult to me. i don’t think that we should separately fight the injustices and prejudices that only affect our very specific identity groups…but instead stand all together.

let’s not take what we can get at the cost of another group…but instead be watchful for all to get fair treatment and representation.

if these comments mean that i don’t have a sense of humor, so be it. i don’t want to laugh when it’s not funny anyway.

GFL (Gray for Life)

thanks for your comment! - JC

Thank you Mixed Media Watch for the informative, balanced work that you do.