Things I don't miss about old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell era Thanksgivings.

[BlueStreak]

1. Notice anything unusual about this picture?

I searched and searched and searched and this is the only one I could find depicting anything other than a Caucasian.

And of course, the subjects were a very light-skinned with ambiguous enough features that a person -- you know a real American genuine white person -- could tell themselves this wasn't really a black person. And if it was, well you know how good those blacks are at athletics.

Yes, Rockwell was the product of a different time, no more and no more less racist than America at large.

I like to go to ethnic restaurants (Chinese, India, Ethopian, etc). I like the food, but more than that, I often find myself as the only Caucasian in a sea of diversity. I like that. I look at the others and wonder what their stories might be. Why would anybody want to hear the same story over and over. Diversity makes life so much more interesting.