The Carmen Delgado Dining Room St. Paul's School The Year 2076

By W. F. Twyman, Jr.

Carmen B. Delgado (2030 - 2070) St. Paul’s School 2048 Harvard College, 2052 Harvard Law School, 2055 Author of the Declaration of Trans Racial Independence “To the Coming of a Better Time”

To the right of the mural in the Carmen B. Delgado Dining Room was etched the eulogy delivered by her old friend and freedom fighter. Nelson Aldrich read the words and, in doing so, he read the life of his compadre. And for a moment, Nelson was transported back to Carmen’s dorm room in 2046 when it all began.

Eulogy for Carmen Delgado Presented by Nelson Aldrich July 4, 2070

A la llegada de un tiempo mejor.

Those were the last words Carmen Delgado uttered in this life. For the few who are not bi-lingual and in English, Carmen said To the Coming of a Better Time. Even as life ebbed from her physical body, Carmen thought of our posterity, our future. She was the Founding Mother of our world today.

To those who now attend St. Paul’s, once upon a time we did not see individuals. I know that sounds incredible, doesn’t it? It mattered if you were white, or brown. That one was of Asian descent defined one’s consciousness. Indeed, we still clung to ancient ideas like one black ancestor makes one black and nothing else. That one must Act Black, Think Black, Be Black. Non-conformers and dissidents were slurred with words no longer permitted in the public discourse today. (applause).

More than anyone else in American history, Carmen brought this better world into existence. And fate allowed me to be there. The grace of angels.

You all learn the story in your history classes now — how Carmen of many heritages was mocked and slurred and shamed because of her whole self identity. She walked around campus, the four ponds and Turkey River, and thought of a way out of a haunted present. She reached out to me in a manic frenzy (light laughter) and a New World was conceived in the individual free of race.

We are all Trans Racials now! (applause)

Carmen’s mind never stopped working. She lived in perceptive vision as she created not a financial empire but an intellectual empire that spanned the Western World. We all know her public side, how she single-handedly convinced Harvard Law professor Adam Clayton Powell VII to write The Pedagogy of the Trans Racial. That treatise became our working bible and was deployed to education schools, teaching colleges throughout the Western World.

I was blessed to know the private Carmen — the highly sensitive, emotionally intense, creative Carmen. The Carmen who loved her black ancestry and her Tejana ancestry with equal passion and fervor. Carmen loved to read. When Carmen really loved you, she would share a sacred book. I still have the little red book Carmen gave to me on that day of days back in 2046. Our hearts go out to the Delgado family this morning.

Did Carmen have enemies in life? Yes, she did. She made enemies and we will bring the evil ones to justice. (somber applause)

Today is the Fourth of July, a day we celebrate our national independence from England. How fitting that we also celebrate the life of the author of The Declaration of Trans Racial Independence. Carmen was our century’s Thomas Jefferson. Her words will stand the test of time as we colonize Mars and worlds throughout the Solar System.

I leave you with the American Dream of our Great Leader, our Moses, our Shepard through the darkness of race to the dawn of trans racialism — To the Coming of a Better Time.

Bueno Bye!