Bi-Racial?: Just Call me a Mutt and Let's End Racism!

Bi- Racial? Just call me a mutt and let's end racism is a book written to explain how and why NO ON is BI-RACIAL but multiethnic. It's a book about the years of observation from my professional experience in law, as a life coach, work in social justice, being raised in Kenya, in boarding school, where you have nothing but time to reflect on the "whys" of life. In another book I wrote called Your Extraordinary, The 5f's digs deeper into more of the why's of life I have pondered, but this is a reflection of the sheer bombastic effect of this 4 or 6 letter word race/racism.

We have a moral and ethical responsibility to address this issue because it is so divisive in our culture today. We have somehow started using a word that defines ethnic groups as a colour palette. Black is not a race but a colour as is white. There is no such thing as two races, but 2 or more ethnic groups. Yes, these things make me mad as you can tell. But we can only affect change if we are willing to have conversations about it. I have experienced all that's in this book firsthand.

We villainize each other based on this 'race' issue, and most interestingly it's something not one of us can change about ourselves, so it does seem like we have ascended into madness when so much of what feeds our sense of wellbeing, mental and physical health is revolving around societal demands on this point of 'race". If we simply stop using that word, we can begin to change the narrative and deal with the real issues. Because the colour of our skin can't really be the issue when none of us can change it, so then let's get over our own insecurities about it and get on with life.