Of Kin and Race

Between washing old dishes and new laundry this morning, to the overloud tunes of recent Nobel prize winner Bob Dylan, I looked up my favorite word. The word is "Kin". 
Kin, at this point in my life is a most vital and precious word to me. My old ancestors, from the isles of Brittania, called it Cynn. Not all together sure why that seemed important to me, unless it's just that I come from stock that know what true kinsmen are and can be.

"The Websters Thesaurus" offspring of this fine word "Kin", match my own. Kindred, kinfolk, kinship, and express the very soul at the heart of this fine word as well as my very good kin. I am indeed a humbled, grateful, lucky man that they do match. They surround me.

 "The Websters Thesaurus" extended relatives of Kin are clan, house, people, and tribe, I have also been extremely fortunate to have them as kinsmen, many my current and long ago friends. I am in a larger sense surrounded and secure in knowing they are both, near and far, part of me.
Another grouping listed is blood, line, and lineage bespeaking the great expanse of "Kin" in directions both well behind and far ahead. Through quantum mechanics and time, surrounding us all.
The last in "the Websters Thesaurus" for relative words of "Kin" is "Race". I found this a troubling, divisive and limiting word. It pierced, rather than surrounded me, as it stands alone in it's relation to "Kin". I would suggest as in kindred, kinfolk, and kinship, we add one additional word to the vernacular of our language, "Kinrace", better yet, "Kindraces".

 We can never and should never erase race, we should embrace it, but we as a free nation of races, in the midst of horrible mistrust and uncertainty, must as kind members of our races, combine in kindness as residents of a jointly shared planet in need of the salve "Kindrace" provides.

Reject hatred, mindless violence, abuse, vitriol, and reject those who promote it, until they also reject it. There philosophies are enemy to every "Kindrace". 

I am a 54 yr old, Scots descended, white guy who considers himself open minded. I attempt and prefer kindness towards all people every day. Unkindness is rude and something I don't like or need around me or any of my "Kin" and certainly not considered "of my Kindrace". Somehow as members of a fearless, open, and forgiving "Kindrace", I believe we can ease violence between all players, care better for our reeling world, retain the best traits of our race, and deliver the best future to our "Kin". 

-Hermit King-