"...two tone"

I remember a China town apartment. I’m laying on the rug beneath a portrait of Chiang Kai-shek. This with Chinese nationalist flags about it. I was playing with wind-up toys Grandma had got for me,…probably from Mott Street. Of our very early lives we just have unconnected images. Knowledge of the complications come later. Given our multi-ethnic family. We all thought as kids that a mommy could have a baby of any color. It was sure happening in front of us.

Also about the name change on my Maternal side. This from Wong to Cameron. Seems our Great-grands took the name of a friend of the family because it sounded more American. Other American ethnics did the same back then. In our case it was to downplay our Chinese heritage and emphasize the Negro.

This to get around immigration restrictions in the 1920’s. At the time this country was very hostile to Asians. This is happening again. American racism was, and is complicated. Color tone gradations, and nationality. One needed a slide rule.

For a while in parts of the States it was actually safer being Black than Yellow. The heritage of the attempted genocide of the Natives Peoples, and the Slavery of Blacks distorted the American Experiment. We are still slowly so slowly recovering.

See flags. I have family in both China's. The Mainland, and Taiwan.

I also have kin in both America's. Texas, and Brooklyn.

The American race game changes from generation to generation. The game is near it’s end hence the extremes of confusions, and hostilities. Give it another generation or two to calm down. Then we can all agree on the real enemy,…the French.

Flag of the pro-Nazi

Vichy French.

These morons are about to elect a Trump Clone.

The French,...figures.