One of those things

[fredericks]

I'm on My LJ, arguably the best bit of revamping the Goat people have done (although 100 icons for paid users is plenty nifty as well), checking to see if someone on my FL has a birthday coming up and, as I'm wont to do, I look over the random user entry. What I find is this wonderfully eloquent post on dealing with a relationship that has ended and how powerful relationships never really end. I'm reading it and I'm nodding to myself, saying "yes, EXACTLY, this is just how I felt when X Y Z" and I'm literally moved to tears at one point (I really have been crying entirely too much lately; I have no idea what's come over me). So before I reply and tell this person how wonderful I thought their entry curiosity moves to check out the gentleman's user information. I find the usual pseudo-deep musing and then, in the middle of all of it, this line: [l]ost my spot at Yale to an underpriviledged minority with a BMW. I'm not bitter, of course. I paraphrase the last sentence slightly, but I'll never forget that first one. It dun smacked me in the jaw. That and his libertarian and conservative republican interests clued me in - yup, dude's an ass. Or, to clean that up - he and I have completely different views on the world. *ahem*

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[fredericks.livejournal.com]

:) No reason to apologize. I do love hearing your thoughts on the topic. I've been thinking on the issue for most of the night. There's this assumption that all discrimination and effects of it (and, you know, 300 years of slavery) disappeared as soon as Martin Luther King showed up. It's really hard to point out that is hasn't in this country to someone who never has to face them.

I knew you'd have a different yet similar perspective on it being in SA. Thank you for chiming in. You're like a multi-faceted jewel of greatest. Ignoring the odd composer lust, of course.