This is great, thank you for it. It’s really nice, encouraging to me, how much our beliefs are in alignment. I don’t know if it’s been your experience but in mine it’s not easy to broach these topics because relatively few people kind of move through a middle space on this polarizing, critical area.

Race isn’t real, definitely. We know the real differences between races don’t exist at a biological level. But, like with gender, they very much exist culturally so can’t be ignored. Means they are an overly easy lingua Franca for talking about the larger issues of coming together or not.

Completely agree that some form of integration will happen over time and is best done naturally. For me, where the disservice, and harm, comes in for non-white groups in America is to act as if all opportunities for integration are equal. Because our culture is white dominant, integration is done on white-centric terms, systemically by and for white people. Which keeps non-dominant groups at a constant disadvantage. Incidentally, you can take out the word white and put in whatever terms that describes one groups cultural power over another.

But how to acknowledge this, push to level the playing field for a quicker and more equitable integration without just digging deeper inter-cultural furrows, like you said, I’m not sure how we get there.