My brother did one of those DNA things to learn whatever our genes revealed.

I’m Boston-Irish Catholic born before Vatican II, and pride of heritage made me and many like me proud of that. Who was more Irish was a mild competition that surfaced every St. Patrick’s Day at my elementary school.

My father told us a few times, in such a way we couldn’t tell how serious if at all he was being, that we had some Eskimo in us through his mother’s side of the family. Eventually, over time the Eskimo became more of a Canadian First Nations connection, so in reality, if anything, it was a drop of Cree or Mic-Mac  blood, if there was to be a genetic trace at all.

The results showed that my family is White. Gene charts might show a collection of genes from various ancient groups, but they were all European and all Caucasian.

I was as disappointment with the lack of any “exotic” secret in my family’s ancestry and would not have a little tidbit to share as I was when in introduction to French in elementary school (“Regardez. Ecoutez. Repetez”) when we learned our names in French, and, while Steven became Etienne, my Joseph stayed Joseph.

So I know what being Caucasian is. I have the gene report to prove it.

Thank God that in the Nature vs Nurture paradigm my nurturing kept me from becoming White, Mike Pence white.

This is the guy who:

• said cigarettes are good for you because the scientists were wrong while the tobacco companies, with no dog in the fight of course, said the opposite;
• co-sponsored the Marriage Protection Amendment and the Marriage Protection Act in 2004;
• as Governor of Indiana issued a memo directing agencies not to comply with a ruling to recognize same-sex unions;
• responded to the Supreme Court ruling that made marriage equality the law of the land, by stating, “I believe marriage is the union between one man and one woman, and I am disappointed that the Supreme Court failed to recognize the historic role of the states in setting marriage policy in this country.”;
• opposed the repeal of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule because, he claimed doing so would “break of faith” with the military, and GLBT servicemembers would hurt morale and unit cohesion;
• in his 2000 congressional campaign suggested that funding for HIV prevention programming should be suspended and those funds should go to organizations that  were involved with conversion therapy and when running for vice president he repeatedly refused to disavow the comments or clarify them;
• in 2007 voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that would have outlawed justifying discrimination based on “religious freedom” across the US because it included the GLBT Community;
• as governor of Indiana signed a law that allows religious people and businesses to cite their conscience as a defense in legal disputes;
• when asked, “Yes or no: do you believe gay and transgender people should be able to be fired from their jobs just for that reason only?”, he responded after an awkward ten second pause, “It’s a great privilege to be your governor.”
• as governor of Indiana was responsible for the largest documented outbreak of HIV in 2014 and 2015 while closing HIV testing centers and banning needle exchanges despite such programs being a proven method of HIV prevention;
• in 2007, when the House of Representatives considered a bill to add sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability to the federal hate crimes prevention act said on the floor of the House Chamber that hate crimes laws “serve no practical purpose” and that

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           “intentionally or unintentionally, could have a chilling effect on the religious expression and the religious freedom of millions of Americans. The hate crimes bill before us today makes a federal offence out of any violent crime that is alleged to be motivated by gender identity, including, for instance, people who describe themselves as transexuals. Even though the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990, as amended in 1994, never collected any data to show that such hate crimes are even occurring.”;

• has been the butt of Trump’s making fun of his extreme religious views as when, during meeting with a legal scholar  and thediscussion turned to GLBT rights, the president joked, “Don’t ask that guy – he wants to hang them all!”.

• Voted against expansion of hate-crime protection.

• voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation.
• voted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman.
• voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage.
• said, “Police officers hear the bad-mouthing that comes from people that seize upon tragedy in the wake of police action shootings as a reason to use a broad brush to accuse law enforcement of implicit bias or institutional racism. That has got to stop. When an African-American police officer in Charlotte was involved in a police action shooting that claimed the life of Keith Lamont Scott, it was a tragedy. Clinton actually referred to that moment as an example of implicit bias in the police force; when she was asked whether there was implicit bias in law enforcement, her only answer was that there’s implicit bias in everyone in the US. We ought to stop seizing on these moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we’ll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there’s a loss of life because of police action. Enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.”
• said, “I would suggest [that] what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement. You just heard Kaine reject stop-and-frisk. I would suggest to you that the families that live in our inner cities that are besieged by crime [would benefit from it”;
• Said, “Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation”;
• Said this about reuniting a racially divided nation,  “The faith community, I believe, has before and can again pay an enormously important role in healing the divide in our country,” but what wouldn’t help was “this talk of institutional bias, or racism, within law enforcement.” 

So here, at the Vice-Presidential Debate, we saw a very White, heterosexual, evangelical man who is willing to deny U.S. citizens their rights on the grounds of his religion, holds that the summer protesters were anti-American and disrespectful toward whichever group gets the best political response, sees no racial problem within law enforcement, theatrically leaves a football game like a drag queen given a penny as a tip would swoop off the stage because the players on the field took a knee to protest racial inequity, grew up white in a very white state that had seven Jim Crow laws in the areas of education and miscegenation, adoption, and the voiding of any interracial marriage existing when the law banning interracial marriage was passed in 1952, and was raised comfortably in a middle class family totally shielded from the conditions of people unlike himself telling Kamala Harriis during the Flygate Debate,

“This presumption that you hear consistently from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that America is systemically racist, that, as Joe Biden said, law enforcement has an implicit bias against minorities, that is great insult to the men and women who serve in law enforcement.” 

Because no one knows the experiences of the GLBT Community, the Black, LatinX, and other minority communities than a very White, in mindset and visual appearance, heterosexual, evangelical man who is willing to deny U.S. citizens their rights on the grounds of his religion, holds with the summer protesters being anti-American and disrespectful toward whichever group gets the best political response, sees no racial problem within law enforcement, theatrically leaves a football game like a drag queen given a penny as a tip would swoop off the stage because the players on the field took a knee to protest racial inequity, grew up white in a very white state that seven Jim Crow laws in the areas of education and miscegenation, adoption, and the voiding of any interracial marriage existing when the law banning interracial marriage was passed in 1952, and raised comfortably in a middle class family totally shielded from the conditions of people unlike himself.