It was June 2013. Six months into the second term of America’s first black president, a man of mixed heritage, alarm bells were sounded across a country struggling to find its bearings socially, culturally, and spiritually.

The day after the November election, political commentator Pat Buchanan said on the G. Gordon Liddy Radio talk show, “White America died last night. Obama’s re-election killed it. Our 200-plus-year history as a Western nation is over. We’re a Socialist Latin American country now. Venezuela without the oil.”

Crimson bloodstained and tainted was the history of a country desperately grappling for its “Better Angels,” just as we find ourselves today. Hurling through the space and time of 10,000 questions requiring ten million answers, where would the great experiment land? Some things don’t add up. Some were asking where were those days when the apple fell from the tree to the ground? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and things in our world were as simple as Black and White.

In 1787, the writers of the U.S. Constitution made it extremely clear with the Three-Fifths Compromise that there was a White and Free America, and there was a Chattel slavery Black America. Any mixing between the two might as well be taboo.

In a forward-thinking, transformational posture, the June 2013 Cheerios commercial attempted to advance us all in an aspirational attempt to turn the page to a new America. Its creators felt they had the wind in their sails following what they saw as the genesis of a new post-racial America. Sadly, Pat Buchannan was not an anomaly. The blood of a vocal faction of Americans boiled over the scene of a black man, his white wife, and their ominous biracial daughter. Ominous, for what reason? For the same reason, dark clouds are called Ominous as the storm nears.

What is the source of this negative energy? The answer lies in the rules of the game that were established many years ago. Some saw this Cheerios commercial as corporate America and the Elites attempting indoctrination, throwing shade on their black-and-white world with a hue that was not their own. To some, the biracial girl represented the life of a potential little white girl whose existence was stolen at best or replaced at worst, i.e. (The Great Replacement Theory.) Through a simple equation the powerful devised centuries ago, the lowest common social denominator was the end result. In essence, black plus white always equaled black. The “One-drop rule” (One Drop of Nonwhite Blood), also known as hypodescent, was established as part of the 1662 Virginia law.

“Hypodescent: the classifying or identifying of a biracial or multiracial individual as a member of the lower or lowest socially ranking racial group from which that person has ancestry.”

Dictionary.com

That is how a biracial man can be classified as a black president.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History states the following.

• “Racial identity is externally imposed: “How do others perceive me?
• Racial identity is also internally constructed: “How do I identify myself?“

Understanding how our identities and experiences have been shaped by race is vital. We are all awarded certain privileges and or disadvantages because of our race whether or not we are conscious of it.”

Racial Identity is not as simple as black and white, after all. The United States of America is home to the most ethnically diverse population in human history, from Latinx, Indigenous American, Indian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, African American, and Anglo. Changing demographics declare that America finds itself in a transformational moment. To punctuate this fact, the 2020 census revealed a paradigm shift in our demographics that will only increase as our science, technology, ethnography, and anthropology advance. That census showed a 276% increase in the last decade of people who declared more than one race.

An article in race.unm.edu echoes much of the same with a recently identified term, “Street Race.”

“If you were walking down the street, what race do you think strangers would assume you are based on what you look like?

The beauty of this question is that it challenges the myth of race as biology, genetic ancestry, or culture and instead focuses on race as a social relationship of power that is not just about your personal identity.

Our research shows that when you use the street race measure in studies about inequality you can make visible inequities that would otherwise remain hidden if we only ask about how you identify (López 2014; López et al., 2018; Vargas et al., 2019).

It’s always important to include at least two questions when asking about race:

1. How do you identify
2. How do you think others see your race?”

Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice

https://race.unm.edu/

The paradigm shift is not only a revolution but more so a revelation (revealing.) This Miscegenation (mixing of the races) is as American as baseball, Apple pie, and church on Sunday morning.

An article entitled “How Black is Black America” from The Root.com by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Published on February 11, 2013, reveals that mixed America is not a recent event.

“father’s line — through their y-DNA: A whopping 35 percent of all African-American men descend from a white male ancestor who fathered a mulatto child sometime in the slavery era, most probably from rape or coerced sexuality. In other words, if we tested the DNA of all of the black men in the NBA, for instance, just over one-third descend from a white second or third great-grandfather. In my own case, he was my great-great-grandfather, and he was most probably of Irish descent, judging from our shared y-DNA haplogroup.

I find two things quite fascinating about these results. First of all, simply glancing at these statistics reveals that virtually none of the African Americans tested by these DNA companies is inferred to be 100 percent sub-Saharan African, although each company has analyzed Africans and African immigrants who did test 100 percent sub-Saharan in origin. Ranges, of course, vary from individual to individual. Spencer Wells, director of National Geographic’s Genographic Project, explained to me that the African Americans they’ve tested range from 53 percent to 95 percent sub-Saharan African, 3 percent to 46 percent European and zero percent to 3 percent Native American. So there is a lot of genetic variation within our ethnic group, as is obvious to anyone even casually glancing at black people just walking down the street.”

According to State news.com, in an article entitled White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find. By Eric Boodman, August 16, 2017, about a known White Nationalist, Craig Cobb. “His “DNA testing revealed his ancestry to be only “86 percent European, and… 14 percent Sub-Saharan African.” Factoring this into the One Drop philosophy would have designated him as black.

The First Black President is a perfect example of Americana’s admixture. However, not in the way we might think. DNA studies of the former president’s family tree reveal that he receives African ancestry from his father’s and white mother’s sides. CBS news.com, in an article entitled Surprising Link Found In Obamas Family Tree, details the following information. That evidence shows that she was a direct descendant of African American John Punch of 1640 Virginia, a Servant. He was the father of John Bunch, whose mother was white.

The Bunch family of Virginia, whose story is one of miscegenation to the point that they became White and owned slaves. That is the place where my family tree intersects with the Bunch family; whether through blood bondage or both, the jury is still out. This is the story of America. The old saying says the more things change, the more things stay the same. In the early 1600s in colonial Virginia, miscegenation was not the taboo it developed into in later years.

May we as a nation master what the 1600s colonials could not, regardless of the fears and fallacies of White supremacy, otherism and great replacement. We can become that nation that is so interconnected that polarization will be minimized, and the divisiveness of racism will forever fade.

“From one human being, he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.”  Acts 17:26 Good News Translation (GNT) “The human story is one of commonalities and connections between neighbors.” from Accord1.wordpress.com, CHEMISTRY TO SYNERGY PART 1