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In reply to the discussion: 'Some blacks feel fatigued after barrage of racial incidents' (understated AP headline...) [View all]Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)22. They think they're being more clever and covert now.
I'm trying to imagine the loneliness and alienation of being the token POC in a mostly white town.
I'm afraid my imagination is overtaxed. The painful images are just to heavy.
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'Some blacks feel fatigued after barrage of racial incidents' (understated AP headline...) [View all]
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2015
OP
Soul killing, mind-numbing weariness, more like. AP opted for understatement.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2015
#3
I stand humbled and gratified before your collective display of dignified civility and restraint.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2015
#12
You are SO spot on. The underlying narrative is even here in the title and text.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2015
#18
K&R The tiredness began when law makers started rolling back everything that was accomplished
jwirr
Jun 2015
#24
It's like the fabled hopelessness of Sisyphus--forever trying to roll that boulder up hill...
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2015
#27
Thank you because I want to believe in the methods of MLK and Ghandi. I need to believe that they
jwirr
Jun 2015
#30
Thank you. My brother, sister and I went to visit the MLK Memorial when it was in the basement of
jwirr
Jun 2015
#37
Also, please dont let anyone minimize pain PoC feel with relatively similar black on black murder
uponit7771
Jun 2015
#31
My response to that hackneyed meme is "Walk a mile in a POC's shoes, then get back to me..."
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2015
#35