I live in west Seattle which has been severed since March from the mainland/city by the failure of a major connecting bridge. Failure is the progressive model for Seattle.
In a taxi the other day I was talking to the driver who was African, Ethiopian. Great guy good English, there is a huge Ethiopian community here. We drove by some decrepit white Seattle activists in their grey haired 70's who were holding up BLM signs on the corner. The guy is an immigrant from fucking Africa, I asked him conversationally what he thought about Black Lives Matters?
He said it was hard and he didn't have anything else to say. There was nothing about his demeanor that said 'I support this cause and have enthusiasm for it,' he shut that conversation down. Also during the drive he added that he had three kids and had been a physics prof in Ethiopia. I gave him an extra 20 bucks.
-All incidental, anecdotal, and dangerous normal observations welcome in this thread. The system is ginning up conflicts and spinning them into the stratosphere.
I live in west Seattle which has been severed since March from the mainland/city by the failure of a major connecting bridge. Failure is the progressive model for Seattle.
In a taxi the other day I was talking to the driver who was African, Ethiopian. Great guy good English, there is a huge Ethiopian community here. We drove by some decrepit white Seattle activists in their grey haired 70's who were holding up BLM signs on the corner. The guy is an immigrant from fucking Africa, I asked him conversationally what he thought about Black Lives Matters?
He said it was hard and he didn't have anything else to say. There was nothing about his demeanor that said 'I support this cause and have enthusiasm for it,' he shut that conversation down. Also during the drive he added that he had three kids and had been a physics prof in Ethiopia. I gave him an extra 20 bucks.
-All incidental, anecdotal, and dangerous normal observations welcome in this thread. The system is ginning up conflicts and spinning them into the stratosphere.