I lived in Jersey City Heights right behind Hoboken a few years before you did. Fortunately, I never experienced the violence that Jeff did. I had previously been beaten up and left for dead by a gang of black guys in North Long Beach, CA in a neighborhood a white guy shouldn’t have been in (at the time) in the late 70s.
I lived in Jersey City Heights right behind Hoboken a few years before you did. Fortunately, I never experienced the violence that Jeff did. I had previously been beaten up and left for dead by a gang of black guys in North Long Beach, CA in a neighborhood a white guy shouldn’t have been in (at the time) in the late 70s.
I didn’t defend myself. At least I didn’t know how and if I had, I probably would’ve been dead. I never faulted my attackers of course what they did was wrong, but I represented something much more than my individual personhood and that’s what they were attacking. Somehow, intrinsically, and quickly I understood that. Education comes in strange ways.
Your words are so poignant to me Derek in so many ways. The problem with writing, and voices, is that a reasonable voice like yours gets lost in the fury of all the extremists with their fist in the air chanting.
Please keep doing what you do it does matter to some of us.
I lived in Jersey City Heights right behind Hoboken a few years before you did. Fortunately, I never experienced the violence that Jeff did. I had previously been beaten up and left for dead by a gang of black guys in North Long Beach, CA in a neighborhood a white guy shouldn’t have been in (at the time) in the late 70s.
I didn’t defend myself. At least I didn’t know how and if I had, I probably would’ve been dead. I never faulted my attackers of course what they did was wrong, but I represented something much more than my individual personhood and that’s what they were attacking. Somehow, intrinsically, and quickly I understood that. Education comes in strange ways.
Your words are so poignant to me Derek in so many ways. The problem with writing, and voices, is that a reasonable voice like yours gets lost in the fury of all the extremists with their fist in the air chanting.
Please keep doing what you do it does matter to some of us.