NBA Star Steph Curry “If one drop of black blood made you black, why didn’t one drop of white blood make you white? And hadn’t anyone noticed yet that everybody’s blood was red?”Tiffany Reisz I am still confused by the labels that we Americans attach to one another. My mother’s ancestors were from Germany; Dad’s … Continue reading “One Drop” Would Make Me Black? →

"You cannot undo the damage of the past."  Dr. Joe, my Dermatologist During the 1940s and 1950s, my days under the sun at the Braidwood Recreation Club, my baseball playing and coaching career, and workdays outside the cab of my truck: all of it damaged my skin badly enough that pre-cancerous eruptions are now a … Continue reading Irreparable Damage: Two Skin Cancers →

“As visually dominant mammals, we readily notice differences in skin color in each other. As primates who uniquely use language to create categories, we readily give names to these differences. Since the mid-18th century, skin color has been the single most important physical trait used to define human groups, including variously named varieties, races, subspecies, … Continue reading Color Coding: Basis for the Caste System →