"The Wine Mom Giveth, and the Wine Mom Taketh Away..."

My favorite comment, thus far today, summing up the Democratic appeal to identity politics and the response of "mom" voters:  Stop messing with our kids.  If the adults can't figure this out, don't dump it in the schools to "teach" a new American cultural message that benefits only the opportunistic minorities and the Guilty White Elite (GWEs).

You simply can't judge us all by our skin melanin, especially if we choose not to identify as such.  I no more identify as "white" because of my skin color than I do "blue" because of my eye coloring.  How dismissive is that, labelling people -- especially in our mixed cultures where "black" children are being raised by white family, in white cultures, with white values (= playing their game, and using their new language classifying by color)?

I don't think Michael Jackson, or Sammy Sosa say, would identify as black.  And if it's all about labeling and accepting how people label themselves, I suspect racial classifications will undergo a rethinking, if we continue dividing up like that.  

Boston's incoming mayor Michelle Wu, for example, looks like a white Asian classification more than as a "person of color".  She's not dark, she's light.  Culturally, she has more in common with whites than blacks.  She's not a descendant of slaves, and did not cross borders illegally, as a child or an adult herself.  Celebrate her individual achievement, sure, but please don't remake her into colored people just to check a box, score a point, or chalk one up for the darker team, if we're playing the colors against each other...

Remember how that eventually caught up Elizabeth Warren, identifying herself that way to advance her career at Harvard as a female faculty of color?  Does the media think they are helping Mayor Wu's career by relabeling her based on her skin color, and putting her in with the black minorities like that?  She won on her merits, friends, not on an identity label.  Don't you understand that?