color. what's considered color?

one of my trademarks when i write blogs is that they are scattered and sometimes unfounded. they come from quick questions in my head. they come from flutters of inspiration that quickly dissipate into the air. i can't always catch them.

when i wrote non-white, i know i excluded some people. i did say full-time staff people. we do have two hispanics who work in our office. i believe one is full-time and one is part-time. i don't want to categorize it all out and say...non-white full-time serving in the wmf office people. so we'll just say non-white fleshies. my boyfriend is biracial. i've learned that it's bi-racial and not mixed b/c he claims both his thai and african american heritage. so. i mistakenly left out one a staff member in bolivia who is also biracial. and THEN i forgot two staff members who check 'latino/hispanic.'

this all comes back to what's considered non-white.

and it could be easy to look at me and say well you don't have many non-white friends. it could be easy for me to admit that i'm not doing enough and not working hard enough. but. there's something that's deeper than that. we're still a segregated society, a segregated church. and i don't want it to continue. we in nebraska are facing a huge bill that will be on the ballots in november about affirmative action. and i remember. we are not that far from the civil rights movement...and it's not just about african americans. it is about the oppression of native americans....its about lation people who experienced conquest by southern europeans of spanish background...and asian americans who experienced hatred and resentment in the years of immigration (taken loosely from the heart of racial justice).

we've missed something.