A FEEL-GOOD MEMORY GAME.

I have a little game that you and your family should play. It doesn't take anything but a memory. First make a list —on paper or just verbally — of all the black people who have given you pleasure: vocalists, actors, comedians. If you're young the names may include names like Beyonce, Viola Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Idris Elba,  If you're older, you probably fondly remember Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, and Sidney Poitier, among dozens of others.  After you've compiled your list, make another list of all the gay persons who have enriched your life. If you're young they might include Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres, Jim Parsons, Elton John and Ellen Page. More senior Americans will recall Rock Hudson, Lizabeth Scott, Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins, Agnes Moorehead and Alexis Smith. What's the point of these lists? Only to remind you how much blacks and gays are an important part of your life at a time when white supremacists and homophobes like Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, and almost  the entire Republican Senate are trying to create divisions between all Americans. They're trying to make us enemies when there's no reason we can't all be friends.