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Samia: part 1
Thursday. 9.3.09 11:32 am
"Where does it stem from anyway? The bitterness, I mean."
As our trek continued from the Capitol building to home, I purposefullyslowed my pace and turned my head toward her.

"Do you know what it feels like to be feared solely based on the color of your skin? What it's like to be walking down a street and watch fuckers fervently cross to the other side just so that they don't have to walk beside you out of fear of what you'll do to them?"

As the words erupted from between my lips, my mind's eye returned to certain instances in my life when these events occurred and the feelings that came with them. They evoked, and still does to this day evoke, a perverse response from within. It's scathingly offensive in that it makes me feel as though those with faces remarkably more pale than my own view me as a feral animal who is not just capable, but likely, to strike at them once they're within my reach.

Without raising her head or turning to face me, Samia liftedherleft hand from her side and brushed back an ebon strand out from over her eyebrow and back underneath her hijab. "Yes. I do."

Those three worlds shook and reset the etch-a-sketch world view I believed to be absolute in that they provided me an insight into a paradigm outside of my own. No longer do I feel the perils I go through as an African American man are exclusive to those who generally look like me. With that revelation, a lot of the bitterness I felt began to temper, if not altogether subside.



Part two soon.
6 Comments.


Heh, the interview list isn't much anymore since I stopped updating the TWoN blog. :P

And yeah... I'm in college... New York... meh... :| I'm stuck here for at least a year.
» randomjunk on 2009-09-03 11:54:08

that statement reminded me of the movie Crash.

re: AC: i have that game for the 360.
» thaitanic on 2009-09-03 12:27:51

Eh... did I say I wanted to be here? I really can't remember...
» randomjunk on 2009-09-03 02:44:23

RE:
ahaha, regular bed time is around 11pm. 1am isnt that far off XD


» crz4manga on 2009-09-03 11:37:12

Have you ever read "To Sir, With Love"? I was just thinking that he talks about that stuff a lot in that book.

Do you still live at the same address. I've actually gone so far as to put the tie in a box, intending to send it....
» Zanzibar on 2009-09-04 09:57:36

Oh, Colossus! If only... (I love Piotr ^_^)
» bluetopaz on 2009-11-08 09:37:16

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