On Family Trees, Marginalized

This is not about racism, or ancestral lineage. It’s our kinship with trees, and what that tells us about any other family, tribe, or species; any Other: Not Like Us. The other is the faceless face of our primal fear, of the unknown.

What is known is our fear response: from war and mob violence, to cowering obedience.  To slake the fear, badges of rank a…