I was telling my boss\u2019s boss how much I had seen the cops that day. He pulled out his phone and asked his LAPD buddy if the cops were on alert and he gets a \u201cyep\u201d. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m standing on a parking lot under the Hollywood sign the sky is dark, pink and purple and I can\u2019t wait to be home reading the stream of events and pain in Ferguson. In some ways it wasn\u2019t as hard as listening to the Trayvon\u2019s verdict while I was seeing (white) friends in Palm Springs having fun on Twitter. But damn. That lack of justice is unbearable. Dozens of those cases. We\u2019re worth nothing I swear white folks, it is quite more than just distracting.<\/p>\n
Of course the decision is given the week of Thanksgiving when everyone is busy getting cozy with family. Of course it didn\u2019t stop people to protest or the LAPD to arrest three times more people than the city that started it all.<\/p>\n
I got a lot of coverage for my blog post on tech and diversity<\/a> last week. St Louis decided to make every single black person sick to its stomach this week. Right in between a black icon is going down<\/a> unveiling a dark and nightmarish side.<\/p>\n The day of massive protests I went balling at my favorite spot. Mexicans are playing soccer, a couple of younger black dudes with braces are hooping too. A black man with three kids and a music keyboard cross the field, go sit down and start to play some licks while a black mom is watching her son ride his bicycle. It\u2019s peaceful it\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s 25\u00b0C\/82\u00b0F and I need this so hard.<\/p>\n Then I have my white sister on Skype, tell her about Mike Brown. She only has heard of Tamir Rice recently. I\u2019m beat. She tells me about her \u201cstruggles\u201d and it\u2019s a stark contrast that makes me want to go all \u201cbitch, you have it all and you\u2019re scared? Just go get it!\u201d<\/em> on her. Chatting about race with people who can\u2019t relate at all and don\u2019t have to pretty much forever, is just a despair multiplier.<\/p>\n I wish I didn\u2019t have to talk\/deal about it. I wish all white people were as good as the ones I usually meet like that dude yesterday who sold me a great couch or my fantastic hosts when I landed in May and didn\u2019t know where to go. I don\u2019t want to fear or overthink either. I don\u2019t want to just survive I want to thrive. I don\u2019t want to hide I want to expand and breathe with abundant diversity surrounding me. That\u2019s when I feel rich and that\u2019s when you are too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was telling my boss\u2019s boss how much I had seen the cops that day. He pulled out his phone and asked his LAPD buddy if the cops were on alert and he gets a \u201cyep\u201d. I\u2019m standing on a parking lot under the Hollywood sign the sky is dark, pink and purple and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}