Biden Has Embraced Multi-Ethnic Future; Republicans Not So Much

Trumpian ‘Patriot Party’ will be more pro-white nationalist than GOP

Manny Otiko
5 min readDec 24, 2020
Gen. (rtd.) Lloyd Austin is Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. He will be the first African-American to hold the position. (U.S. Central Command)

A few years ago, I was at my brother’s 50th birthday party in Los Angeles. I looked around at the party-goers. There were several Nigerian immigrants, Black Americans, Latinos, a few white people, an Indian immigrant and his American-born son named after a French soccer star, and several members of L.A.’s large Armenian community. It looked like the United Nations and it was beautiful. It reminded me why I moved to California. It’s times like this that make the awful traffic and the sky-high rent worth living here. My brother also pointed out that most of the kids in his daughter’s class are bilingual. His daughters speak English and Russian.

The author (purple shirt) at his brother’s 50th birthday party. The picture features people of Russian, American and Nigerian descent. (Photo by Manny Otiko)

America is trending brown

It’s also the future. Everyone knows that trends start on the coasts and move inwards. The personal computer, companies such as Lyft, Uber and Facebook and hip-hop music are examples of trends birthed on the coasts. Even the coronavirus started on the coast, before spreading out across the nation. California used to have the…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.