People expect others to give up an unearned advantage because it’s unearned. Maybe in an after-school special where Tommy learns at the science fair that he’d rather lose fair-and-square than cheat and win; yeah, that will probably happen.
At a time when every other news story is enough to make you want to permanently hibernate, a glimpse of something truly beautiful is emerging in California’s Bay Area.
Of course not all men are evil. What does that reassurance have to do with solving (or even just vaguely acknowledging) the primary issue being presented here?
Since the election, I’ve, honestly, been checked out. No news. No twitter. No sharing my anxieties and fears and frustrations online or face to face.
“If you can rationalize and come to terms with the far greater atrocities committed by Europe and the United States of America, then I have to call into question your scathing reaction to Castro.”
To sit back and see the further division of the United States of America and the behavior of its citizens has me beside myself.
It should bother us, no matter how far we are removed from it, that some person of color’s soul somewhere in America is going to lose his life to a gun at the hands of a police officer.
“Forcing anyone to wear any sort of clothing is an insult to [anyone’s intelligence]. It is cruel, unjust, and humiliating.”
