The following three points to ponder entered my head over the course of the last twenty four hours:

• The USA is the only country (of which I know) where adding a modifier/qualifier for someone who's not white (Afro-, Asian-, Latin-, etc.) implies that one is less of an American. (In America, White Pride gets you called "very fine people" by the former president and being Black or native gets you in trouble.) In SA, it's the opposite. (Being a Black/native or Indian South African is a source of pride. Being a white South African, not so much. Here, White Pride gets you into prison.)
• If French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish all stem from Latin, why have I only ever heard of Portuguese and Spanish speakers/Hispanic individuals being referred to as Latin-Americans? Why are French and Italian individuals considered white, but not Spanish ones, considering they stem from the same region of Europe? (Perhaps this is because it was predominantly the Portuguese and Spanish who invaded, conquered and subjugated the Aztecs, Incas and Olmecs in what is now Mexico and Southern America, not the other way around. However, white Americans should not be given preferential treatment, considering the atrocities their forefathers committed against the Apache, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Comanche, Cree, Cherokee, Kickapoo, Lenape, Mohicans, Paiute, Shawnee, Soux and other tribes they found and massacred or evicted in the "New World".)
• Stripe, the Amero-Irish online payment processor, is racist. By refusing to pay out to countries that are not in North America, Europe, Scandinavia or the United Kingdom, Stripe effectively prevents people from African and Indo-Asian countries (whose populations are majority non-white) from earning on for-pay blogging/newsletter sites such as Medium, Substack and Vocal. To add insult to injury, one of the colours (of which there are only two) in Stripe's logo (below) is white. This is why we need sites that pay out in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Cash and Request. Cryptocurrencies don't care about your race/ethnicity or nationality.

Stripe's Logo

On the topic of white stripes ...

Fuck you, white America ... and thank you for attending my TED talk.

Post thumbnail image: Photo of El Castillo ("The Castle") in Mexico, by José Andrés Pacheco Cortes from/on Pexels