What are you talking about ?<br><br>On Monday, November 18, 2013, Liz Henry wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I like to share fun anecdotes about how I was just hanging out on the<br>
Internet on a public mailing list then met some pretty racist white<br>
people who have done plenty of crimes in their lives, but no one goes<br>
around assuming stuff about them and treating them like they're<br>
criminals. It's super uplifting!<br>
<br>
- lizzard<br>
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:50 PM, David Barthwell<br>
<<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'david@vergegraphics.com')">david@vergegraphics.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting anecdotes about<br>
> encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that there are<br>
> actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them!<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:36 PM, rhodey <<a>rhodey@anhonesteffort.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Oh yes, it is worth noting that I'm a white male in his early 20s.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙<br>
>><br>
>> On 11/18/2013 07:12 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote:<br>
>> > this reminds me of a comment I overheard on the bus when I lived in st<br>
>> > louis:<br>
>> > "I'm getting that government money man, fuck street money, it ain't even<br>
>> > worth it."<br>
>> ><br>
>> > ps are you a boy or a girl?<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, rhodey <<a>rhodey@anhonesteffort.org</a><br>
>> > <mailto:<a>rhodey@anhonesteffort.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Receiving and contemplating the perspectives of others is one of my<br>
>> > favorite ways to burn metaphorical CPU cycles. The level of respect<br>
>> > I<br>
>> > show for differing perspectives is something I hope to never be<br>
>> > content with, that is to say I believe it's an endless process and<br>
>> > I'm<br>
>> > still working on it. I have a tendency to keep my head stuck in<br>
>> > projects and have realized is that I've been holding out on sharing<br>
>> > many of my most valued perspectives, more specifically my<br>
>> > experiences.<br>
>> > It is my hope that through sharing experiences we can better<br>
>> > understand how to conduct ourselves within Sudo Room and how we Sudo<br>
>> > Room can better conduct ourselves within our local community.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I arrived in the "bay area" May 1st by way of some airport in New<br>
>> > England, in search of hackers, activists and uncomfortable<br>
>> > experiences. After subletting an apartment in the mission for all of<br>
>> > a<br>
>> > month I moved to West Oakland. Since arriving in Oakland I've been<br>
>> > robbed three times, to me each experience has been indescribably<br>
>> > educational in its own way. However, my first crime related<br>
>> > experience<br>
>> > in Oakland was not a crime at all.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > There is a corner store within ~6 minutes walking distance from my<br>
>> > apartment by West Oakland BART called Happy Times. To me it is<br>
>> > usually<br>
>> > a liquor store, but this day I felt like working through the night<br>
>> > so<br>
>> > I bought 2 large redbull energy drinks. Walking home holding the<br>
>> > redbull as best I could in one hand I passed two African-American<br>
>> > youths, one female, one male and both no older than 17. We passed<br>
>> > each<br>
>> > other and at this time I was about 20" from home then from behind me<br>
>> > I<br>
>> > heard "hey man, can I get a redbull?".<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I turned around to face the two of them with a bit of a guilty smile<br>
>> > on my face, after all who the fuck really needs 32oz of redbull?<br>
>> > Caffeine, other energy drinks, productivity and I all get along<br>
>> > swimmingly, all the better if I can help someone else get things<br>
>> > done.<br>
>> > "Sure" I said, followed by "make good use of it" in an attempt to<br>
>> > make<br>
>> > the situation more casual. I walked up and handed him the redbull,<br>
>> > his<br>
>> > face lit up, he went nuts.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > **and I quote** "Oh man! Asking is so much better than stealing!"<br>
>> ><br>
>> > The smile stayed on his face as he continued celebrating, exclaiming<--<br>
Liz Henry<br>
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'lizhenry@gmail.com')">lizhenry@gmail.com</a><br>
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"Electric ladies will you sleep or will you preach?" -- Janelle Monae<br>
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"Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to<br>
evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ<br>
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