Re sharing...
I wanted to mention a couple of things that came up in my confab with Kel when he visited. First Kel brought his Superman costume and before we went out... we visited one of his co-workers who had brought his kid.
I mentioned to the co-worker, in semi passing, that here in Boston we have RANDOM bag checks and I'm against them.
**I should mention that I'm against random bag checks because I read subversive books like Al Franken and I want to be able to buy porn downtown without some cop finding it.**
However when I mentioned this to Kel's co-worker... He pointed out something that I sort of forget. I'm of middle eastern descent. I consider myself of Russian desenent as my ancestors all came from Russia( great grammy was a menshavik)... but if you go back far enough I have middle eastern roots because jews are Semitic, as are arabs because we are all desendent of Shem.
Heck, I know that I wrote in my blog over a year ago- when I was working at Staples- that one of my Staples co-workers mentioned when I had a beard that I looked Middle Eastern... I told him that's because my ancestors are Middle Eastern and that conversation spiraled down from there.
So when they do racial profiling... I'm more likely to get a bag check then ____( fill in the blank with someone you know with good european stock)
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I also wanted to mention, I forgot how it came up in conversation.... but I think I've told people here, my Dad is obssesed with his own mortality. His father( my grandfather) died in HIS 50's, my dad being arround 18, and his mom about a year later. My grandmother( who my middle name comes from- she was H. Rose Swartz- my middle name is Ross from Rose) died about a year later. As a kid I was told she "wasted away"... as an adult, I figured this MIGHT be code for "sucide" so I asked both my mom and one of my dad's cousins... both agreed that grandmother killed herself.
What I didn't share with Kel, is that I had read a year or two ago- someone don't remember who- saying that suicide is heridary. Which at the time I thought was stupid because if I killed myself, I wouldn't have kids... but then a month or two after reading that I remembered my grandmother had killed herself, and even though I never meet her- whether that might have anything to do with MY suicidal tendencies. I rather doubt it though, as I consider my depression to be mental( my stupid f'ing job) and not chemical( though my older brother I was told by one of my parents has taken meds for brain problems).
I mentioned to the co-worker, in semi passing, that here in Boston we have RANDOM bag checks and I'm against them.
**I should mention that I'm against random bag checks because I read subversive books like Al Franken and I want to be able to buy porn downtown without some cop finding it.**
However when I mentioned this to Kel's co-worker... He pointed out something that I sort of forget. I'm of middle eastern descent. I consider myself of Russian desenent as my ancestors all came from Russia( great grammy was a menshavik)... but if you go back far enough I have middle eastern roots because jews are Semitic, as are arabs because we are all desendent of Shem.
Heck, I know that I wrote in my blog over a year ago- when I was working at Staples- that one of my Staples co-workers mentioned when I had a beard that I looked Middle Eastern... I told him that's because my ancestors are Middle Eastern and that conversation spiraled down from there.
So when they do racial profiling... I'm more likely to get a bag check then ____( fill in the blank with someone you know with good european stock)
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I also wanted to mention, I forgot how it came up in conversation.... but I think I've told people here, my Dad is obssesed with his own mortality. His father( my grandfather) died in HIS 50's, my dad being arround 18, and his mom about a year later. My grandmother( who my middle name comes from- she was H. Rose Swartz- my middle name is Ross from Rose) died about a year later. As a kid I was told she "wasted away"... as an adult, I figured this MIGHT be code for "sucide" so I asked both my mom and one of my dad's cousins... both agreed that grandmother killed herself.
What I didn't share with Kel, is that I had read a year or two ago- someone don't remember who- saying that suicide is heridary. Which at the time I thought was stupid because if I killed myself, I wouldn't have kids... but then a month or two after reading that I remembered my grandmother had killed herself, and even though I never meet her- whether that might have anything to do with MY suicidal tendencies. I rather doubt it though, as I consider my depression to be mental( my stupid f'ing job) and not chemical( though my older brother I was told by one of my parents has taken meds for brain problems).
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