I don't have much flowing through my mind this morning. I have tons hidden in the back, on shelves, waiting to be dusted off, until the time someone asks. It's funny. I wonder if the handful of people I encounter daily understand what it's like to be chained inside. Not physically, but mentally. Being surrounded by people who think they know, but don't even know all, but don't even know themselves, let alone me. I have outlets, but they are few. My most intelligent conversations, in-person, have been with a cat and a dog. I long to talk about great movies, philosophy, children, sports, literature, serious social issues. Anything but headlines about a virus most fear, but are too lazy to investigate on their own, simply trusting those that share will prove smarter than they. This silent disease has become our religion. Unexplained, unrepenting, and one we've somehow gather communally to show our faith, not in its word, but in its destruction. A fox shrieks and society's norms have me thinking it's a woman in danger. Dogs bark to alarm the perpetrator. I peer out the window like some onlooker expecting to see Kitty Genovese. We've all just become spectators of a world outside. The trip to the zoo has been turned, as the wild comes closer to the glass and peers into our caged existence.
This was a post I wrote on Facebook after surprisingly not seeing any moaning about the Documentary by Jose Antonio Vargas, titled White People Dayyum! I just scrolled my timeline and not a single white person got their feelings hurt by White People. I unfortunately haven't seen it, but the number of fake accounts that popped up on twitter, tells me it was a damn good show. Here's the thing. If someone of color aka non-white says "White Privilege," are you offended? If you said yes, then you are exhibiting white privilege. It has nothing to do with how hard you work or study, how you stayed out of trouble, because here's the thing, that is entirely the point. Somewhere out there, there are 100 Black, Spanish, Native American, Arab, Asian, who worked and studied as hard as you and never got in trouble, but they don't have what you "earned" or achieved. Stop looking at the one person you know who isn't white that achieved as your benchmark. Loo
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