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fly on the wall
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7/18/2020 12:26:42 PM
eyes are the window to the soul
I was in a grocery store the other day and everyone had on a mask. It occurred to me how much more notice I was taking to folks' eyes. It felt like I could get to know them like better than when their whole face is there to distract me.
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Desperado Revue
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7/18/2020 1:03:40 PM
OK, now I know who Fly On The Wall is.
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fly on the wall
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7/18/2020 1:55:10 PM
I am a friend of Scott's on facebook and I copied and pasted his post. :~)
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Desperado Revue
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7/18/2020 3:34:48 PM
Yea, sure, right, of course, we'll leave it at that so you can stay on the wall.
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Black Mask Special
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7/18/2020 3:42:13 PM
Same here, I look at the eyes. I can tell if they are smiling, anxious, scared shitless. disappointed etc. and the whole gam of emotions they might be going through. And all this at a grocery store wich is about the only place I go to. I'll engage the ones closest to me in the social distance lineup outside based on what I see in the eyes.
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Desperado Revue
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7/19/2020 6:24:44 AM
What I do see in the eyes that I encounter in the line up at the grocery store is loneliness. These are the individuals I tend to chat up. It seems to make there day.
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Stoneman
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7/29/2020 2:49:06 PM
All I ever see is hatred and occasionally fear. I m the only Black man for miles around here. It's so frustrating that I tend to keep my eye's looking towards the ground. Unless spoken to, I don't look at these people. Even though they don't know me, I know that they don't like me. They don't want me here but I don't give a shit cause I ain't leaving. But, yeah, I have never seen so many Blue eyes of hate like I do now that people are wearing masks. It's very discouraging. Someone spray painted swastikas and the N word all over my fence and they hung an effigy of a tarred and feathered Black man on the tree in the park next to where I do my daily martial arts workouts. They are trying to tell me something but I just refuse to listen. I am just waiting for the first attack. That's when I will look them in the eyes and fuck them up. I stay ready. I will repel any attack that comes my way. Around here, if the eyes could kill, I would have been dead a long time ago. Too bad for them, they don't know what they are missing by treating me this way. They make so many stupid assumptions because I am big and Black. They follow me around the stores as if they think I am a thief. Harrrrr, it cracks me up when I start pulling out Benjamin's on their asses. They waste their time following me around while the White people are stealing them blind. I have seen them walk right out of the store with a basket full of stolen goods. Nobody notices but the guy they think is stealing. Funny as shit! But, serves them right.
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Two Silo Complex
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7/29/2020 9:50:10 PM
Stoneman see my other post.
People will always hate what is different from them this has nothing to do with who you are. They might take their hate out on you but that is because they don't know you.
The terrible things people do out of blind hate. If they only know that it would be you the one who they hate that would jump in front of a moving car to save their child but they are blind. Have pity on their wretchedness not because they deserve it but because they don't
While its easier said than done I invite you to be a better man than them which you already are. Take the high road and while it will bring sweat to your brow you shall know in your heart you took the right road and that is what matters even if it does not dissuade their hate. That is on their souls fate not yours. One day all will be revealed and they will be shown how foolish they were and tears will stream down their faces and they will wail while your head will be held high.
TSC
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Tom O'Brien
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8/1/2020 4:01:59 AM
Hey Stoneman,
You've shared so much of yourself over the years, and I know that you are not just a decent person, but someone to admire in many ways. That you can't just be that to your community is unfair. I'm pained to hear you talk of it, but I believe that it is finally time that African Americans be heard - and I think it's happening. We have to make it happen. Thank you again for sharing. There's never been a better time for change and I think that racism is fading along with the last generation. I taught in a public school for a while, and I know my kids saw each other as human beings first and not as different colors. I have a lot of hope for the millennial generation. They seem to get it. It must seem overwhelming where you live, where nobody gets it.
On another related note: I think the U.S. government owes reparations to every black American who is a descendant of slavery. They never got their 40 acres and a mule, which would've changed their lives and given them a means of subsistence. It would've incorporated them into the economy instead of marginalizing them. There's a billionaire named Robert Johnson who has proposed a $14 trillion plan to give the roughly 40,000 black Americans $350,000 each. Talk about changing the economy! I think that plan is lofty, but I'm glad people are talking about it. We freed the slaves, and then neglected them. It's shameful. Now is the time to repair old wounds.
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