But you should probably maybe ignore most of it. Because there is more shared between us than we want to admit.
I was talking to some guy here in Bangkok recently last night. He's Jewish and I'm Jamaican. It turns out our lives were remarkably similar. Right down to me working in the same city he lived in 30 years ago. We were making jokes about both of our Jewish friends because we experienced the same things with them.
We experienced a lot of the same things too. It was very interesting having that more than hour long conversation.
He experienced a lot of negative things in his life. I experienced many of the same negative things in my life. We spoke about a guy on my team here from a totally different very poor South East Asian country who experienced similar things in his life too.
So yes, maybe the order of things, or the severity of things that happen in each of our lives are different, but most of the encounters and experiences are similar to what other people see.
We are not that special. We are not that unique. We eat the same things, watch the same shows, want the same things for our children.
The difference between now and before, is that we could put people in fewer buckets, now there are a few more buckets we can put people in. And really, if you stop to thing, not that many more buckets, since human nature sort of remains consistent regardless of the times.
And the sooner we understand that a white nationalist has many similar experiences to a black nationalist, the sooner we will realize, that hey, "that guy is very much like me".
I'd be curious to know how many other people had no sex from their mid 30s to their late 50s (20+ years). Maybe there are many more out there that aren't saying anything but it's certainly not a common narrative. My fiction is if I walked down the street and asked i'd be hard pressed to find someone in a similar situation.
But you should probably maybe ignore most of it. Because there is more shared between us than we want to admit.
I was talking to some guy here in Bangkok recently last night. He's Jewish and I'm Jamaican. It turns out our lives were remarkably similar. Right down to me working in the same city he lived in 30 years ago. We were making jokes about both of our Jewish friends because we experienced the same things with them.
We experienced a lot of the same things too. It was very interesting having that more than hour long conversation.
He experienced a lot of negative things in his life. I experienced many of the same negative things in my life. We spoke about a guy on my team here from a totally different very poor South East Asian country who experienced similar things in his life too.
So yes, maybe the order of things, or the severity of things that happen in each of our lives are different, but most of the encounters and experiences are similar to what other people see.
We are not that special. We are not that unique. We eat the same things, watch the same shows, want the same things for our children.
The difference between now and before, is that we could put people in fewer buckets, now there are a few more buckets we can put people in. And really, if you stop to thing, not that many more buckets, since human nature sort of remains consistent regardless of the times.
And the sooner we understand that a white nationalist has many similar experiences to a black nationalist, the sooner we will realize, that hey, "that guy is very much like me".