I Wonder What Would Happen If...

...we just all of a sudden, one day in the very near future, stopped calling Black people "African-Americans, "and Red people "Native-Americans" (or "Indigenous Persons"), and Yellow people "Asian-Americans?" 

And White people...ummm...never mind...

Just stop, overnight, whenever possible, calling people by their amalgamated racial descriptor, instead of by their actual skin color.  Sort of like we all decided a couple of decades back to stop referring to Blacks as n***ers.  Or even Negroes.  That's another one of those "N" words which will surely be banned just as soon as somebody in the grievance industry takes notice.  And as we stopped calling Mexicans "wetbacks."  It was condescending, degrading and racist.  And like we stopped calling the Chinese "chinks."  And the Jews "kikes."  And the Irish "micks."  Oh wait.  Nobody's complaining about that last one...      

Anyway, we just stopped.  We just stopped referring to Blacks, a name which USED to be verboten, to them, as n***ers." And now referring to Blacks by that name will get one...banned.  Or fired.  Or prosecuted.  Or shot.  Even if somebody somewhere dredged up such an utterance from some social media place or other from years ago, you'd still be publicly excoriated and would likely never work again.  

Is such an overreaction in our mutual best interest as a society?  I tend to think not...  

What if we just decided, as a society, to do what we should have all been doing years ago: referring to each other only as "Americans."  No more "hyphenated" anything.  No "African-Americans," or "Mexican-Americans," or even "Native Americans."  Just Americans.

And if we need on occasion to further refine that description, such as in a police report, or to further a positive narrative, we could add in the person's color.  As in, Black, or Red, or Yellow, or White.

But never again a "hyphenated" anything...

I'd offer up that if we stopped engaging in the politics of division, which is clearly what this has all been, and started working together as a cohesive, color-blind society, we'd cool the devastating undercurrent of unrest we're currently experiencing.  One I truly believe was heightened and reinvigorated by one Mr. Obama a few years back, and one we need to eradicate in order to begin to rebuild the foundation upon which we as a society must have to grow and prosper. 

Why am I pontificating on this subject?  I've grown weary of "identity politics," and so has America, in my opinion.  That's the term used for the Democrat's efforts to cut and slice and dice and divide us all into little sub-groups, which they can then use to pursue us all individually in an effort to win votes.  And they do so in matters of race, especially.

It kind of reminds me of that old adage:  "How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time."

Let's call a halt to the "Congressional Black Caucus."  And the "Black Entertainment Network."  And the "Black Entertainment Awards."  And the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."  And the "United Negro College Fund."  And every other group or award or collective that uses race as its foundation.  

Unless, of course, they'd...we'd...approve of the creation of the "Congressional White Caucus."  And the "White Entertainment Network."  And the "White Entertainment Awards."  And the "United Caucasian College Fund."  

When are Black people going to tire of being treated like Democrats' wholly-owned serfs?  I'd say the day they decide to throw off the yoke of political "slavery" is the day America achieves its long-sought goal of cohesiveness.  Of unanimity.  Of togetherness.  

We advertise America as being a "melting pot."  Let's actually create one...  

I say that we should all just plant our collective feet and demand, DEMAND of our leadership that this counterproductive activity that has so divided our country come to a halt, and Right Now!  We have the power to demand, and effect this change.  Let's use it...