ously fake all the time.

Now as I have been telling you lately, I have decided to self-identify as Black. And I decided I have not explained that well enough because some people still think it is a joke, but it is not. Number one, I agree — literally no joke, being completely serious — I agree with the concept that people can self-identify. Let me give you an example. Let us say somebody is technically bisexual, at least in their own mind. They would consider themselves bisexual. But let us say they just have more of an affinity for the gay lifestyle, spend more time there, have more gay friends than straight friends, and just decide to identify as gay. But maybe technically in their mind they know that they could go the other way if they wanted to. So should they be allowed to identify as gay when sort of technically maybe they are not so much completely gay as bi, but they have an affinity for that lifestyle? I say yes. I say yes, because they would certainly be treated as gay. They would be living the life, you know, etc. So I say yes.

Likewise, as you know, I have been pro-transgender everything. And should those folks be allowed to live the life and identify with the group that they want because of an affinity for it? Technically if you looked at their DNA, right, you would say well technically this is not the group that we would have put you in. But if you have an affinity for that group, it is where you feel you live and belong and how you are going to be treated in life, I am okay with that. I feel that is a reasonable thing. And so based on that same standard, which I have accepted as reasonable, and likewise I accept that if somebody is 25 percent genetically Black, that if they identify as just Black we accept that, right? Because same reason. Their lifestyle, their interests, the way they are treated might be more in one group. So yeah, identify that way even if technically somebody else might argue you should not be.

So here is why I have decided to self-identify as Black. Number one, I like to be on a winning team. I like to be on the winning team. Who is winning? Well I would say Black Americans are starting to finally like really getting a little bit of purchase right. Finally after hundreds of years it does look like the Black situation is doing pretty well, largely because of activism, whereas the white situation is sort of decreasing, would you not say? Now I am not putting a value judgment on that. I am just saying if you observe it, it looks like that. So I like being on the winning team.

Number two, I am told by science that all of us have African roots. Now if it is true we all have African roots, if you look at the full arc of human evolution, most of the time I have been African. In other words my family ancestry probably spent more time African than they did in Europe. So I say genetically I have got an argument there.

I have also lost two careers for my race. I have told you that too many times. I lost my banking career because I was white and was told that directly, by the way. I am not reading between the lines. Boss told me that. I lost my telecom career because I was white. Again my boss told me directly, you are white, we cannot promote you. And I would say that my current career as a cartoonist and now public commentator, I probably lost a third to a half of my potential income to race. Because if I talked about Trump in any positive way that made me look like a white supremacist, people do not buy my books, et cetera. So I have lost two careers completely b