Comments by "alex carter" (@alexcarter8807) on "My Racism Christmas Story" video.
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You've probably heard of the "Rodney King Riots" in Los Angeles, and a white truck driver, Reginald Denny, who was dragged out of his truck and beaten up. Well, who rescued him were a couple of black truck drivers who saw it on the news and to them, what mattered was he was another trucker - his color didn't matter, he was a trucker. And they went in and scooped him up.
I grew up in Hawaii where being white-passing at least, I was near although not at, the bottom of the social hierarchy. But it's been 40 or even 50 years since the bad old days, and these days I find I've gravitated to the city that's the #1 place on the mainland US for people from Hawaii to move to, and these days well ... I'm a member of the local Buddhist temple, getting back in touch with the food tastes I grew up with which are largely Japanese, and am really doing my best to discard the deep and strong resentments I had in the past. The rinban (head honcho) of the temple grew up where I lived for many years, and I've had the pleasure of hearing the owner of the Nichi-Bei store tell one of her employees "He's more Japanese than we are!" because I was relating some of the things I grew up knowing, like why we fly paper carp on Boys' Day and so on. You stick with the nation-state of California and you''ll be all right. There's an ugly sort of white ethno-nationalism brewing in the "flyover" states but just avoid them. Although I grew up in Hawaii from the age of 5, I was born here in California and you are welcome here and it doesn't matter if you're white, black, brown, Muslim or Baha'i or atheist, you are all welcome here in California.
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