I want to open with a note about Marble League. It is wonderful, as previously noted, but the point of what I am trying to admit here is that a life goal has become to buy season tickets to Marble League. Yes, I want to be on the video. It is a sport I greatly enjoy and feel like it is a pure sport. No thought in my mind that the system is rigged. Why would it be? That isn’t the main point of this blog. In fact, this is me getting out more of those thoughts that were bubbling up and out of control yesterday. The biggest one has to be about privilege.
Yesterday I wrote at length about a work dispute that is rooted in the concept of privilege. Another moment of this came following the death of the student at my kids’ school. Several parents decided to organize a memorial event for the fallen student. They forgot to include the family as part of the event. In fact, the girl’s parents wanted to and DID go a different direction, hosting a memorial in Puerto Rico where she was born and raised surrounded by family and lifelong friends. However, these local parents decided they and their kids needed closure and had a different event. That is real nerve.
I don’t think people here realize how much of their lives are dominated by how they feel about XYZ. They believe the world moves around them and their needs. This is the American way now, but the problem is that everyone cannot have the world move around them.
Some Thoughts: