I hear you, that white people need to stop identifying as white. But what if we're not the ones doing the identifying?

I never felt right calling myself white. It just didn't seem to fit. Recently I had a DNA test and found out what I'd always suspected: I've got some Asian and Indigenous American ancestry, and a smidge of Nigerian as well. Finding this out was very joyful, like finding missing pieces of myself! At last I knew where those ancestral voices echoing in my soul were coming from, and that I was well within my rights to hear and heed them!

Even so, I look white, till you look real close. My birth certificate says white and my family ostracised me for "fraternizing" with CHOSSA folks. (I love that word! -- and yeah, they actually used that word "fraternizing" as in, fraternizing with the enemy.)

When I fill out forms I check "other" and fill in "Human." Then when I look at my medical and employment records I see someone categorized me as white anyway. It sucks. It tells me that I don't get to decide whether or not to be white, others get to decide this for me. And I don't want to pull a Rachel Dolezol or whatever she's calling herself nowadays. I just don't have the spoons for that.

So people who look like me are pearl clutching and hand wringing over being replaced. I say, bring it on! Whiteness is destroying our humanity and our planet. Time for people who remember what it's like to be human to have a turn at the helm.