All right, time to tackle the TOD.
If I were to change anything, it would be about attitudes. Instead of putting people into labled groups, I would try to educate our youth to see people as individuals. No more of this "Republicans are This/Democrats are That" stuff. No more appropriating the label "Christian" by one segment of the religion, or labeling people as "Jews," as if that can only mean one type of person, and that they're all cookie-cutter identical. Straight/Gay/Trans/Bi...why? And, not least of all, none of this racial baloney.
How to do it? Well, it's got to start in our schools. But not in the way that it's being done now, where any mention of diversity is so often shushed because even mentioning differences is an admission that differences exist. For example, I'd have Huckelberry Finn used as a reading text, when appropriate. But I wouldn't shy away from the "n" word, as is done too often today. I'd instead urge the teachers to show how the stereotyping is inappropriate.
The insistance on pigeonholing people into little labeled groups is destructive. I simply want to see an end to it. And if it takes a generation to change how we see ourselves and each other, then I'm willing to wait.
I'm just not willing to wait forever.