tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post6541164273070156307..comments2023-07-03T06:51:05.962-07:00Comments on O Dock: did you go sailing todayO Dockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-1697170324774505622011-01-19T13:17:05.668-08:002011-01-19T13:17:05.668-08:00The kind that lurks in the shadows and only comes ...The kind that lurks in the shadows and only comes out to play in the presence of like-minded people (or on the safely anonymous internet) is EXACTLY the kind that makes me think of bedbugs - repulsive, very good at hiding, and horrifyingly hard to eradicate.<br /><br />However, the more I think about it, the more I think that comparing racists to bedbugs IS insulting. <br /><br />To the bedbugs. <br /><br />All bedbugs really want is a square meal.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-31514087236439331812011-01-19T11:09:24.258-08:002011-01-19T11:09:24.258-08:00Thankfully, I haven't had to personally endure...Thankfully, I haven't had to personally endure prejudice in my life, beyond the extent that we all suffer in its presence.<br /><br />So, I can never really know to what extent it remains, although it surely does.<br /><br />I would guess that the worst is the kind that is not institutionalized - the unseen demons that lurk in the shadows. It's always easier if you can see your adversary.<br /><br />I saw a note on Facebook the other day. A man of color is cruising tropical waters in his sailboat and happened across another man of color on another boat in the same anchorage. He wondered, wryly, why everyone else in the anchorage kept mistaking the two men for each other.<br /><br />I do know that the country I live in today is a much healthier place than the one I grew up in. Scenes I see around me every day would have been impossible in that other place. I see changes that I thought would take more than a lifetime to happen. One huge surprise came in November, 2008.<br /><br />Today's kids are growing up free of a lot of the baggage that my generation carried. And their kids will be freer still.<br /><br />Despite the decisions that any of us might make, though, about how we choose to live our lives, I think it does take time for the more important changes to happen.<br /><br />Too much time.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-49859240822774667142011-01-19T09:09:42.939-08:002011-01-19T09:09:42.939-08:00ps - not that I think racism is gone (in fact, Arn...ps - not that I think racism is gone (in fact, Arnold, would it be hurtful if I made a comparison between the perniciousness of racism & bedbugs?), but I consider myself blessed to live in a place and time in which I can only imagine institutionalized racism. <br /><br />I am also grateful that there are many, many books out there (and people like Ruby Bridges) that testify to what it was like and guide my generation's imaginings.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-41848238285050376572011-01-19T08:40:52.532-08:002011-01-19T08:40:52.532-08:00gaaaaaccch
words fail me.
fortunately somebody e...gaaaaaccch<br /><br />words fail me.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjqaTIu7E0" rel="nofollow">fortunately somebody else made a very nice video</a>.<br /><br />Absolutely choked up hearing Ruby Bridges tell about her own experience. <br /><br />I couldn't do anything this year beyond posting - with jury duty on Tuesday, MLK day was a work day for me. <br /><br />Maybe next year I will see if I can find something useful to do.<br /><br />(and it won't be going shopping)bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-44259077397594415272011-01-19T07:56:15.523-08:002011-01-19T07:56:15.523-08:00thanks bonnie
i overheard o docker talking to his...thanks bonnie<br /><br />i overheard o docker talking to his co workers when he got back to work on tuesday<br /><br />he had to run an errand over the weekend that brought him past a local car dealer<br /><br />they were running one of those three day weekend sales events with tents set up in the parking lot with free sodas and a weenie roast<br /><br />in the world of the car dealer it was business as usual<br /><br />they did not have a sign set up saying<br /><br />test drive our i have a dream car<br /><br />but they might just as well have<br><br>arnoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-88923060645198884542011-01-19T07:04:44.116-08:002011-01-19T07:04:44.116-08:00Well said, Arnold.
This business about how holid...Well said, Arnold. <br /><br />This business about how holidays so unfortunately tend to lose their meaning is exactly what I was thinking about with my 2-days-early post looking for better greeting. <br /><br />If I'd had more time, I was going to write about how sad it is that so many of our holidays end up being all about retail events and how sort of gross it would be if the stores started having Dr. Martin Luther King Day Sales too. <br /><br />However, a quick Google search tells me that that has indeed already happened. <br /><br />I guess I didn't realize that because I don't spend as much time at the mall. <br /><br />Sometimes ingnorance really is bliss.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-81326097882482594802011-01-18T04:15:34.901-08:002011-01-18T04:15:34.901-08:00My wife told me of an old, old man who said, "...My wife told me of an old, old man who said, "I remember a time when Negroes had no souls. It was much better and easier then. Now it's confusing." ~ John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charlie" 1962.<br /><br />Thank you Dr. King for making such things so "confusing" for some, and so crystal clear for others.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.com