Monday, April 25, 2016

Pleasing others

Came across a quote I wrote down years ago--can't tell you wear I heard it...

"I have wasted so much of my life trying to make myself palatable to white people."

Exactly...I remember once when a fellow law student demanded that I take off the clothes that I wore to class. And he expressed no concept that he came at me from a sense of self-righteous superiority. Neither did the school's administrative "leadership".

A few months later, I watched him smash his face into a door that he failed to open before trying to cross the threshold...