Dear John,
In your article in the NY Times on THE JOY you write that "That’s because a good deal of the joy people keep talking about is a result of one fact: that Harris is Black."
I'm not disagreeing with that in some senses, but you also leave out that she's Asian American as well.
South Asian.
And there's a LOT OF JOY THERE FOR THAT FACT TOO.
I just find it interesting that in an article that talks about the myopicness of only thinking about race and not as you say thinking about "assessing her as an individual" that you would leave that out.
You may not be mixed, bi-cultural, etc.--but for those of us who are (myself cultural as a Transracial and International adoptee, Vietnamese War Orphan, and Vietnamese American) -- we do have a unique look on the world because we have to traverse between multiple worlds.
I think it says something about us and how we navigate the world and that this one thing alone, does in fact make us unique and can be a SINGULAR SOURCE OF JOY.
That's it.
Hope that guinea pig is eating good.
Il Slanty