Rashida Jones in a recent interview says: "I'm back to that place where I'm like, 'You know what? I'm black, I'm white, I'm Jewish, I'm Irish, I'm Portuguese, I'm Welsh, what the f**k ever.' To me it's so inconsequential. People still say things to me like, 'Oh my god, you're black? I would've never guessed that.' And I just think, I can't help your ignorance. There are bi-racial people who look like me or who look like Alicia Keys or who look like Halle Berry. I'm so proud to be so many things."
Her comments resonate so much with me. The frustration is in not being able to "be multitudes" in that Walt Whitman way because of America's small-minded way of thinking about race.
