https://freerepublic.com/tag/postracialism/ en-us Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:47:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341275/posts I had a conversation, not too long ago, with a member of the now dwindling Greatest Generation. The conversation ran a gamut of topics: favorite recipes, memories from childhood, what the town of Watsonville used to look like before the massive influx of the dot-commers to Santa Cruz County looking to escape the cramped suburbia of Silicon Valley. But the one thing I was just itching to ask this little ancient was about her ethnicity. You see, she had brown skin. And I was simply curious! Was she a Mexican-American, I wanted to know, or was she perhaps Native American?... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341275/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:47:53 GMT