Thanks for sharing the visual…a well written perspective on “whiteness” weaved into your unique journey. I enjoyed the trek. It does leave me with few questions. Nothing beyond the pale…simply curious. I promise to keep it succinct.

Your father was what? Are you different than him? Are black writers…some your age many not…some your gender some not, different than you? Are black dumpster cloths hunters different than you? Shaved head you back in the day distinguished you did it not? What comes next with the room filled with extraordinary uniqueness? Where is right and wrong best and better worse and grand? Where does subjectively find its abyss or tabernacle?

Why change who you are while demanding everyone else must as well? Why change what you can not? Why not simply agree on what everyone has…in common? Can that be the substrate for a transcendent self?

Are we all not the exact same… human…human beings…brothers and sisters…flawed, imperfect…sacred selves…each biased… yet…ever, indisputably one human being family peering into and out of many dumpsters yet, all…each of us… domiciled in the exact same alley?

Its over. No more questions. Mercifully, yes, no more questions. Simply last words while know I genuinely appreciate you listening.

Start with one and add. Its seems much easier than going to the infinite…[categories and broad sweeping generalizations…demarcation lines separating] …and then subtracting. Easy math. Simple truth with improbable possibilities.

To conclude, I offer only your answers to reflect upon as you ponder the genuine nature of the warp and woof that weave your thoughts …as you seek the foundational truths for the evolved self… and its…our…all of our essential tomorrows.

Good luck and safe journey.

Eric