By Anna Isabella Lazarescu
The color of your skin and my skin is white, so we have it easy. Everywhere we go, this ease protects us, frees us. We have nothing to think about when we go working or visiting relatives.
I think of Joe’s dark hue and try to process how it would be to live in fear every day. Tuck his children in before heading to his night shift at the convenience store down Elmbrook and Main anticipating that, if a police patrol ever stopped him walking back home in the morning, he might never see them again.
Time to shed our ease.
Thoughtful piece, Anna. Timely too.
Thank you, Roy.
Ug-g-g, you express it too clearly, too unambiguously, too convincingly, and too true.
Thank you for your kind words.
Racialism should end and humanism should win for the good of all.
Thoughtfully brings out the meaning of freeedom. Great piece of crisp writing.