Dear People of Color: Things I Wish You Knew

If I could write a letter to us--people of color--from a white person it would be as follows:

Parental discretion is advised.

Dear People of Color:

I have been thinking about you, and I wish you knew that

• White people are really sorry for the events that led to the African slave trade, but we don't know what else we can do to help in culture unison.
• White people sometimes feel that African Americans would rather be slaves instead of trying in this new economy.
• We've always been a broke country and, yes, we used Africans to sustain the USA, or you could say that we used Africans for us to remain here instead of returning to Europe.
• African Americans care way too much about the "correct" behavior of kids, and materialistic things.
• White people are not originally from here either.  Are any of us, originally, from this country?
• The USA was a new home for most Native Americans, too.
• Maybe we were only actually right about segregated schools, and should have desegregated all other venues a long time ago.
• There are some white teachers who really care about teaching youth of color, but only really a few truly do. Long-time teachers realize local-districting attitudes and the normal American attitudes of the path of our financially disadvantaged.  That's why you haven't heard much of education from our current two presidential candidates.
• White people quietly want to know how they're going to be involved in the new future of the modern population. (People of color are now more than half of the American population.)
• People of color are correct in their thinking about job creation--especially digital or tech jobs. Such jobs are really for us, but when there is too much demand to fill jobs, well, by any means necessary I suppose
• Believe it or not there are lower-income whites who live in America, too. They earn just as much as low-income people of color. The only difference in them is that they are not publicly debating their life experiences with the current dysfunction of our country's economy--broke.  These are they that got the memo when people of color in this category are still in unbelief, in shock: make the best of what you have, and just be thankful if you have a roof over your head.
• If you can afford products or services that we make, great. But we target a particular customer group. Can you describe who those people are? If not, boy do you have a lot to learn culturally.
• Older white people made up the white population of this country, and now most of them are dead with no extended family sets, no children.
• Older white people quietly want to know if peole of color have enough empathy and morals to honestly care for their needs in nursing homes, etc.
• Older white people quietly do not understand, really, why people of color are still attending churches and church denomination that they created and founded so long ago. Yes, it's nice to have your tithes, but most of faith believers of color never give enough to pay the selected pastors, bills, or remodeling/expansion of places of worship anyway. Did we really cause the dysfunctional financial attitudes of people of color, when it comes to business, or was it your own public leaders that you admire so?
• White men hold the finances of this country--ask one of the many white women that are married to one. Some white men run their homes like their offices: dysfunction in and out of their unique households--but all the household individuals are merry when you see them. Do you "really" think the grass is greener on the other side?
• White people want to belong, to fit in.  We'll take your children of color-- to fit in--if fear invades us enough. Yup, okay, racially blended families we will have [and we will do it with no second thought].
• So people of color are slowly eliminating traditional holidays created by white people (of European or German traditions/cultural practices).
• White people realize that people of color would rather have another black president, and it's a little scary when thinking of the activities of the next presidential term. Like you, we have to protect and be concerned about our unique households too.

Respectfully,

A typical American white person.

P.S. As a typical American white person, I could be your boss, your coworker, your neighbor, your mailperson, your lawyer, your doctor, your friend, or a faith believer that attends the same place of worship that you and/or your family attend.