i like different.
I was desencitized to my over abundance of resources when I started living in the mid west. I grew up my entire life in a west coast city, then moved to go to school in Indiana and forgot some things.
First off, there are more than just white people in the world. Can I say this without it sounding bad? probably not. I love being around mexicans again. Cubans...and in most cases being the only one of the two whites in an area (usually am with my wife). I think back to experiences with race at my christain liberal arts school and remember how the 100 minorites (out of 2k students) were so unique that they often used their minority status to be clever and funny. Stuff that I laughed at every time. You know...making jokes about their culture that we whites people laugh at without understanding. I'll stop before someone reads this that doesn't know me and thinks I'm a some kind of multi racial clan member or something. But seriously, my favorite part of yesterday was going down to balboa park and eating at my fav mexican place (El Fandango). The place is awesome...good food, seating outside, gas lamps, and a live mariachi band that came over and played for our table a couple times.
Secondly, there are a lot of bums here. The weather is livable outside the entire year, its too dry for misquitoes, and with all the fairs and festivals people without homes flock to this part of the country. Well, seeing is realizing what I have (things I've earned and been given). I think about the food that wasn't eaten in my college cafeteria every day and wonder how many people are hungry every night outside on the street. The slpop that I complained about paying 7 dollars for would have been eaten without complaints by the woman I saw outside of walgreens. I don't wish to say that I'm thankful for street peole...but I wish every american had to wake up in the morning and see someone sleeping in the alley behind their house or walk out of the grocery store and see two people going through the trash to find cans. its reality. I gave a guy a twix bar yesterday that I bought to sneek into a movie later, but seeing him made me feel like not going to a movie anymore.
First off, there are more than just white people in the world. Can I say this without it sounding bad? probably not. I love being around mexicans again. Cubans...and in most cases being the only one of the two whites in an area (usually am with my wife). I think back to experiences with race at my christain liberal arts school and remember how the 100 minorites (out of 2k students) were so unique that they often used their minority status to be clever and funny. Stuff that I laughed at every time. You know...making jokes about their culture that we whites people laugh at without understanding. I'll stop before someone reads this that doesn't know me and thinks I'm a some kind of multi racial clan member or something. But seriously, my favorite part of yesterday was going down to balboa park and eating at my fav mexican place (El Fandango). The place is awesome...good food, seating outside, gas lamps, and a live mariachi band that came over and played for our table a couple times.
Secondly, there are a lot of bums here. The weather is livable outside the entire year, its too dry for misquitoes, and with all the fairs and festivals people without homes flock to this part of the country. Well, seeing is realizing what I have (things I've earned and been given). I think about the food that wasn't eaten in my college cafeteria every day and wonder how many people are hungry every night outside on the street. The slpop that I complained about paying 7 dollars for would have been eaten without complaints by the woman I saw outside of walgreens. I don't wish to say that I'm thankful for street peole...but I wish every american had to wake up in the morning and see someone sleeping in the alley behind their house or walk out of the grocery store and see two people going through the trash to find cans. its reality. I gave a guy a twix bar yesterday that I bought to sneek into a movie later, but seeing him made me feel like not going to a movie anymore.
posted by Jared at 9:24 PM
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