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Kind of Blue

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10. Funny, I was just wondering about your ethnicity.

Reply to laserhaas (Reply #9)

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 01:14 PM

Nov 2018

Then thought what does it matter, he feels, absorbs, obviously tries to integrate - correctly IMHO, what's experienced and witnessed in his environment that are factors in the lives of many, many people.

I've had and do have white and non-black people in my life who I don't have to explain a thing to. They amaze me because I'm like what is that thing that's caused you to understand mostly since childhood? Why haven't you waved it off, excused or struggled with it? The answer is always witnessing something that jarred them and/or just born with a bleeding heart

They are my allies because in one way or another they know our liberations are bound

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Letter from a Region in My Mind - James Baldwin [View all] Kind of Blue Nov 2018 OP

do you know I was gonna post this today? K&R JHan Nov 2018 #1

STOP!!!! I've been desperate for time to post this for days. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #2

Mr. Baldwin is sorely missed. laserhaas Nov 2018 #3

Yes, indeed. I remember this clip posted on FB from 2017 Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #5

Perhaps you guys can help laserhaas Nov 2018 #4

Gosh, I don't know and a quick search pulled up nothing. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #6

During these times that my heart aches over humanity laserhaas Nov 2018 #7

Yeah, the more I know the better I feel. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #8

It is easier for me, than most. laserhaas Nov 2018 #9

Funny, I was just wondering about your ethnicity. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #10

Don't get me wrong. I know it is different in South Central L.A. laserhaas Nov 2018 #11

Amen to knowledge! Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #13

Interesting! - From where do you hail, originally? laserhaas Nov 2018 #14

Born in Lagos, Nigeria on the Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #16

Nice laserhaas Nov 2018 #20

I'm deliberately posting this as a separate comment. When I say laserhaas Nov 2018 #12

For sure. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #15

Very Cool - KUDOS to you & your kids laserhaas Nov 2018 #18

Another way to spread the knowledge is thru mentoring. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #17

When what you need or want is what the Universe needs laserhaas Nov 2018 #19

Wonder what guys like Baldwin, King, Gandhi would think - of today laserhaas Nov 2018 #21

Well, said - one's liberation inextricably tied to another. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #22

It would be neat if the diversity of Star Wars laserhaas Nov 2018 #23

Oh, don't get me started on Star Wars - LOL, I guess Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #24

WOW laserhaas Nov 2018 #25

It's been good talking to you, laserhaas. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #26