I guess with my wife being Asian, my son marrying a woman from Zimbabwe, and my daughter marrying someone from Nigeria, divorcing and then having a child with her partner from Haiti, we don't see apartheid persisting in America. My Asian American daughter has a white boyfriend, my African American granddaughter went to prom with a white boy.

I know we are not "normal", but 16.5 % of marriages are interracial. About the same percentage of children born in the US are multiracial or multiethnic.

These numbers are not the numbers you see in an apartheid country. Even more enlightening is that more interracial marriages occur in the South than in the nation as a whole.

So, let's admit that individual racism remains an issue, but societal apartheid is not real in America. Moreover, I have never read of an apartheid nation, that has laws making discrimination based on race illegal. I have never seen an apartheid nation where corporations and universities have DEI departments.

In a mixed-race family like ours calling our country an apartheid nation is offensive. We relish a country that embraces mixed race integration the way America does. We also reject separatist movements, whether they are white nationalists or black ones.

We see a battle going on in America between the majority of people that are moving through the stages of integration and those that are fighting tooth and nail to stop it.

1) The first phase is outlawing discrimination/segregation. Our country has outlawed legal discrimination and segregation.

Some ethnic groups self-segregate, like the Amish or Hasidic Jews, but that is not a function of an apartheid country, but their personal religious beliefs. Our nation has even passed laws that put the burden of proof on employers when any racial group is underrepresented to prove that discrimination was not a factor or face legal consequences. Apartheid nations don't pass these kinds of laws.

Critical Race Theory is a legal theory, that argues systemic racism can arise out of the unintentional consequences of policies and laws that do not directly address race. The most common example is legacy admissions. Offsetting legacy admissions most colleges have in fact adopted what is now technically illegal but has been documented statistically affirmative action programs. Seriously, what country with apartheid policies violates its own laws to achieve diversity? Legacy admissions are critical to preserve alumni donations, but to balance that private universities intentionally accept underrepresented minority students who have lower test scores and GPAs, than other students. An apartheid institution would simply point to the scores and say, sorry you don't qualify.

The second stage of integration is societal integration. That is observed in the "dating" practices and social activities of a society. Over 60% of 18–29-year-olds have interracially dated someone from a different racial or ethnic background. More importantly, the vast majority of Americans (over 70% approve of interracial dating). Again, these are not attitudes found in an apartheid country. Among younger people under the age of 29, 95% of Americans approve of interracial dating.

The third stage of integration is biological integration and as noted about one in six children born today are mixed race. As mixed-race dating leads to more mixed-race unions, biological integration will accelerate. Again, not something you see in an apartheid society.

So, let's be honest. America is not an apartheid nation, nor do we have apartheid policies. We do have people of all races, that are racist. I was attacked and mugged in the 60s because of the color of my skin by a gang of teenage black children for the most part older than me on my way home from school. Three years later, two of those black children became my friends and teammates, one of them a close friend. That is the America we are becoming.

What we need to oppose is identity politics. As a Obama said, he is black, but his skin color does not define who he is.

As for the Holocaust, my grandfather's business partner was a Jew. When the Nazis forced him to buy out his partner for pennies on the dollars. He could have taken his windfall and walked away.

Instead, he took personal risk to get his business partner and his family out of a Nazi labor camp and help them escape.

After the war, the children returned to Germany, and he paid them the balance that the Nazis would not let him give his partner. I would say that Germany was taken over by the Nazis, but many Germans were not Nazis. And when Germany was defeated, many Germans were happy that the reign of terror had ended. The Germans went on to pass Section 130 after the war, making antisemitic hate speech a crime.

I have worked as the CFO or VP Finance for many Jewish CEOs. When I became CEO of a company, I asked a Jewish man to be on my board. What happened under Nazi Germany and slavery was wrong, but what matters is how the nation operates today. Reliving the past, won't change the past, but what we do today will change the future.

I don't just talk integration, I practice it, and I live it. America is a nation of immigrants, what defines us is not the color of our skin, religion, or ethnicity. In fact, it is easier for a Nigerian to become a US citizen than a citizen of South Africa. The idea that America is an apartheid country is ludicrous.

I do how you will join me to fight racism. Reject it when you see it. Embrace integration as the goal of our society and work towards ending identity politics.

I do appreciate your thoughts and rest assured my perspective is best reflected in my experience. In our recent family picture, it the changing "color" of America: 7 white people, 6 black/African/Haitian/American people, and 3 Asian/Asian American people. Any future additions will most likely be more Asian Americans as my youngest two daughters are the only one likely to have children in the future. We are a reflection of America today and even more so in the future. With each generation, biological integration is replacing social integration... we are not an apartheid nation, we may be one of the mixed nations on the planet when it comes to diversity. It is because of all that diversity that we have racial tension, not because of the lack of diversity.