My President Is Half White

Bout a month ago, Hua Hsu wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly called The End of White America. Using "the End of . . ." is a cheap trick (see Francis Fukuyama's the End of History) but the title is alarming, alluring, especially considering the author's name. Better a lapdog attack than a Rottweiler he,he. What Hsu is really discussing is the Birth of White America (commonly confused with the 1910 film, The Birth of A Nation). Cus when I your age, back in the 90's, kid, White America was called. . . America.

In the 21st century, there is a specific set of culture and values we can attribute to our (shrinking) group of brethren and it shouldn't just be guilt. A little shame never hurt anyone though. White History Month Fact: white people invented punk rock, man!

And let me let you in on a little secret.. . dude, my dad is white!

Then what to call this new race? I flirted with Whitese-Americans, but it looks better on screen. Coming off the tongue, it sounds like the name of a minstrel show. And don't go tryin to call yourself Irish-American now because if you ain't been Irish in a generation, you ain't Irish now (Unless you plan on putting out an album called the Micktape, in which case, by all means. . .)

So you don't get to call yourself what you want? It sucks, doesn't it? But that means you're American! Congratulations! You didn't even have to take the citizenship test!

White America is losing its virginity. It feels kinda weird at first but uh trust me, girl, it gets better . . . This isn't the end of anything except the end of white people being able to engage with the world strictly on their own terms. (Take yo pills and eventually you'll forget the the ole straight jacket is even on :))

So welcome to the world, baby girl! Now maybe this can be a great country.




"The days of pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as the days of their predecessors. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period: The period of the fusion and mixing of all peoples."
-Jose Vasconcelos from La Raza Cosmica (1925)