Tom Jackson

Here's how stupid this Heritage American bullshit is. Earlier this week, I was stuck at a hotel in small town Ohio. I tried for 2 hours to get an Uber to the local airfield. Finally a guy in a pickup truck sees me sitting on the curb and gives me a ride. He is a wind turbine mechanic from Texas. I thank him and offer him gas money. He says no, he just likes paying it forward; he figures that way someone will help his wife or daughter when they need it. His mother calls from Texas and they converse in Spanish. He is Hispanic. A few days later in a small town in Kansas, I am walking from the airfield to a hotel. A guy in a truck stops and picks me up. He is in uniform. Army National Guard, with an 18th Airborne Corps combat patch from Iraq in 2018. His truck is full of duck hunting gear. He is a black guy from Chicago. I would stand beside either one of those guys in a minute, over any of these morons claiming they inherit some kind of status from their ancestors. Character ain't hereditary, and it sure ain't racial.