I wrote about six paragraphs about reflection about what has changed and what will change. The reality is nothing has changed. 53 hours into the New Year. I spent time with old and new friends. I drank and watched football. I argued with some and laughed with others. I miss someone and I await meeting someone else. I did the things I always do. A friends mother passed yesterday. Cancer. It never changes. Today has roughly 19 hours left in it. I will do something differently and maybe, by some chance, a butterfly effect will take hold and everything around my will magically change. Not likely, but that's what the new year brings us. Hope.
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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