The kids were staring in the sky. As I made my way towards the playground where the after school kids were gathered I turned my head towards the sky to see what they were looking at.
Dots.
It looked like 100+ white dots or aliens. I tried the alien angle with the kids (who didn’t know what that was) then the adults who giggled appropriately before reminding me of all the odd stuff we see coming from the local airbase. Nobody knew where the balloons came from. There was some speculation that they were launched from a nearby school or neighborhood, but nothing speculated made any sense. A brief moment that happened on a Monday.
Some Thoughts:
- Something else that happened: I’ve started to notice a proliferation of homogenized black women on tv shows spending time with white men. This is a good thing in some ways. This makes black women more mainstream and thus eases the strain of being an outcast on that particular set.
- On the other hand, that sort of thing is painfully stupid. So for a group to be accepted they have to show a willing partnership or subservience to the dominant group?
- Or I could just be drained on a monday.