1. My examples included people of a variety of ethnic heritages. (My thanks and a salute to those who noticed.)

2. It's hard to talk about paella without mentioning paella. Some of us might not pronounce paella correctly... Too bad!

3. I am really not interested in having conversations derailed by accusations about the words used, in general.

4. Speaking personally for just myself, I am heartily sick of people complaining (to me, about me, or less directly) about how I express myself instead of addressing the POINT. In bluntspeak: Religion, race, whatever the basis-- or the word to refer to THAT-- I don't have TIME for that crappy approach.

5. The POINT was that something is changing right before our eyes. Is it fast enough? No. Is it perfect? No. Is it permanent? No. Does it undo, equal, or amend, ameliorate, heal, [word of your choice] past injustices? No. Is it a good thing? YES. Is it worthy of notice? YES. Is it worthy of celebration? YES.


Plainspeak: Native Americans (the remnants of the "redskins") must be flipping to see "white" people embracing "mixed" races being celebrated, now. BTW I don't mean HERE. I mean, in the culture.

~Susan