Let me be up front. I'm a long distant Arab by way of being Pakistani. A splash of French, a pinch of Italian, a glimpse of Swedish. A solid 0.25 Native--1/8th Cherokee + 1/8 Mohawk. My gramma could sure fry some mean chicken and make black eyed peas. Oh, and I'm Bengali...I'm a refugee, a displaced person in my own country. An American-born confused Desi--you heard it. I'm a solid US-er with global citizenship. Somebody ought to do a SWOT analysis on me.

So let's talk about race baby....I'm not a politician, although I am running for president in 2020... ;) Yeah, it's about time we got real. Wait, I gotta get back to my social epi paper which I have yet to start. Sorry Professor Oakes...