My thoughts this morning

Today we saw our new President sworn in to office. A historical event that he is of mixed heritage being of one parent who is black and one who is white, a first for our country and it should be a proud first but...

It makes me ask a question to myself. Do I care about race and am I racist in some way in the fact that it bothers me that a man who is half white and half another race will always be considered to be of the other race? Please don't get me wrong and think that I want those of mixed race to claim white if that is one of them. I don't think that at all. What I wonder is why we continue to place such importance on race at all? I don't believe that any race of man is better than any other in any way.

All races have atrocities in their past and even atrocities in current times being carried out by evil men all over the world. No man is above the lowest acts that humankind can commit and no man is below the greatest acts that humankind can commit. We are all equal in our ability to choose bad or good but in today's society we are still judged on where we grew up, what color our parents were, and what people of the race of our birth did in the past and even that is seen through the faded lenses of public education and through the voices who could cry the loudest and speak the most influentially. Each and every person on the planet has done good things and bad things. The balance of good and bad in a persons life and their abilities should be what is seen by others and no one can know the quality of another with out knowing that person.

I hope, for myself, that I have been able to judge the people in my life by who they are and not where their ancestry resides and if ever I am judged by others I would hope that it is by my actions and my life, not by the simple fact that my skin is lighter or darker than theirs.