So there’s another haphazardly scribbled title that, in the end will reflect what this post is all about, hmmmm– maybe 10%. “Write Post” is almost Nazi-like in the way it commands us to jumpstart the creativity. I want to begin with my thoughts, and the topic I’d like to expolre today, but WordPress places the cursor first in the title box. I know I can tab out and come back to it later, but titles are just so much fun. They’re like doing newspaper headlines, or captions to photos. You want to capture and encapsulate everything into a few pithy words. You want to hint and tease, and if you can pull it off play with words some. Ahhhh, titles…… Now what the h-e- double hockey sticks was I about to say, anyway….?
Oh yeah– the IR gene. Okay, so it’s a poor title. I missed my mark. What I was really thinking about was this. You know the way scientists these days are always claiming they’ve found, “the gene that?” The gene that….. causes obesity…. alzheimers….. blue eyes….. pyromanism….. etc? You know the way the science-types are always figuring out the magic chemical or link, or deoxyrybonucleic tie between this group of rodents, or classical composers, or any such bunch of people or crawly things? Have you seen those swabby DNA test kits that people use now to trace back their familial origins– back to our original prehistoric tribal roots?
Well I wonder if there’s such a link in the minds of people willing to inter-(race)-mingle? Of course I’m kidding, I don’t think there exists such a natural bodily chemical. But you never know. They’re scientifically linking all kinds of things these days. Maybe a hundred years from now they’ll announce the color-blindness gene, or racial tolerance gene, or…. or….. maybe the IR gene was the best top of my head choice I could have made. Feel free to comment and suggest a better name for this new, yet undiscovered genetic strand.
What got me thinking about this was a group of pictures of interracial couples published this week on AOL. Here’s the link (cyber not genetic) to the pictures. It was interesting to view something like that because I don’t think I’d ever seen so many IR couples “together” before. That and the fact that they are all famous people made me wonder what it is about them– about me too– and maybe you too if you’re reading this– open, willing, and loving of someone not like us. We ventured away from those who look, act, worship, talk, etc., exactly like “our kind.” We get it. We understand that what binds us together is not that skin tonal thing, or that eye shape “thing;” it’s compassion. A heartbeat. We’ve looked beyond superficial things and found love.
Til next time…….. Your Loving hosts.
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June 29, 2008 at 2:24 pm
There’s significant scientific research that suggests that we’re attracted to the scent of others who have different (but not too different) immune systems from ourselves. It makes prefect biological sense, of course, but race/ethnicity alone doesn’t tell us too much about immune systems – so ethnically dissimilar groups have similar immune systems