18 Nov
2013
18 Nov
'13
7:59 p.m.
I am sincerely sorry that I've made you uncomfortable. It was my
intention to share an experience that better helped me understand
motivations for crime, not an experience with other ethnic groups.
Retrospectively I'd rather not have answered the last question because
it wrongly places focus elsewhere.
--
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
On 11/18/2013 07:50 PM, David Barthwell wrote:
To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting
anecdotes about
encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that there are
actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them!
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:36 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org
<mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> wrote:
Oh yes, it is worth noting that I'm a white male in his early 20s.
--
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
On 11/18/2013 07:12 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote:
this reminds me of a comment I overheard on the
bus when I lived in st
louis:
"I'm getting that government money man, fuck street money, it
ain't even
worth it."
ps are you a boy or a girl?
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org
<mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>
<mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org
<mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>> wrote:
Receiving and contemplating the perspectives of others is one
of my
favorite ways to burn metaphorical CPU
cycles. The level of
respect I
show for differing perspectives is something
I hope to never be
content with, that is to say I believe it's an endless process
and
I'm
still working on it. I have a tendency to
keep my head stuck in
projects and have realized is that I've been holding out on
sharing
many of my most valued perspectives, more
specifically my
experiences.
It is my hope that through sharing
experiences we can better
understand how to conduct ourselves within Sudo Room and how
we Sudo
Room can better conduct ourselves within our
local community.
I arrived in the "bay area" May 1st by way of some airport in New
England, in search of hackers, activists and uncomfortable
experiences. After subletting an apartment in the mission for
all of a
month I moved to West Oakland. Since arriving
in Oakland I've been
robbed three times, to me each experience has been indescribably
educational in its own way. However, my first crime related
experience
in Oakland was not a crime at all.
There is a corner store within ~6 minutes walking distance from my
apartment by West Oakland BART called Happy Times. To me it is
usually
a liquor store, but this day I felt like
working through the
night so
I bought 2 large redbull energy drinks.
Walking home holding the
redbull as best I could in one hand I passed two African-American
youths, one female, one male and both no older than 17. We
passed each
other and at this time I was about 20"
from home then from
behind me I
heard "hey man, can I get a
redbull?".
I turned around to face the two of them with a bit of a guilty
smile
on my face, after all who the fuck really
needs 32oz of redbull?
Caffeine, other energy drinks, productivity and I all get along
swimmingly, all the better if I can help someone else get
things done.
"Sure" I said, followed by
"make good use of it" in an attempt
to make
the situation more casual. I walked up and
handed him the
redbull, his
face lit up, he went nuts.
**and I quote** "Oh man! Asking is so much better than stealing!"
The smile stayed on his face as he continued celebrating,
exclaiming
all possible iterations of the above
statement as I stood their
dumbfounded. This continued for minutes until we parted ways,
up the
stairs and into the house I could still hear
him talking with his
friend.
This was certainly not the first time he'd been told of this
sentiment, but after ~17 years of living it was the first time
he had
ever believed it. There are at least 3 other
experiences I
would like
to share in time, but for now I'll leave
it at this.
--
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
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