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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]hunter
(38,309 posts)Barrack Obama navigated those worlds brilliantly.
I'm a native white guy Californian and resident of Mexican Catholic California since the early 'nineties. My great-great grandfather's nineteenth century house in San Francisco still stands.
But of all the bridges I've burned, the bridges back to Illinois and Hawaii still remain. I could check out of Hotel California any time I like but never leave.
My one and only white California high school reunion, years ago, will be my last. Me, my parents, and all my siblings have abandoned that place, a land of colorblind and largely clueless politically bluish-purple wypipo. Ronald Reagan Democrats who believe the myths and would never piss on his grave. My parents raised us there because that's where their work was. Artists can't be picky, they work where the jobs are. When my dad retired my parents left.
My skin is Irish, I grew up on southern California beaches, and now too frequently have scary things cut out of my skin to wait anxiously for pathology reports. I tell the kids in our family to use sun screen. Kid's, you don't want skin like THIS! (Cue screechy Alfred Hitchcock terror music.) I confess, I'm a bit jealous of the darker skinned kids in our family who have never been sunburned.