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(34,845 posts)On my walk to Starbucks this morning, I passed two black guys at a bus stop and I thought how different our lives must be. Me with a good paying job headed for a couple of high-priced coffees and a morning spent listening to angsty yuppie music in the background during pleasant conversations with others. And they likely headed toward a weekend of working some minimum wage job that they will never be free of.
Of course that could have been an unwarranted assumption on my part but one can't know the truth of 'pass-through' encounters like this.
I don't feel guilty. I don't even have a college degree yet I've done quite well for myself. But I'm aware that the odds of my 'struggle' have always been much better than they are for non-Caucasians.
That doesn't need to diminish my accomplishments. It's simply a recognition of reality.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]