The truth of the matter is that I feel like I've come to terms with being who I am, whatever that is. I'm not somehow driven by a pervading sense of injustice somehow hoping to right any and all wrongs suffered by asian men as a consequence of racism, what have you. Everyone has hurts and grievance and to some degree we're all broken. So I'm comfortable putting my thoughts out there and not overly concerned with growing a readership, and hopefully most importantly, not driven by a need to be right or even the need to be heard as I have come to believe that those needs tend to complicate any sort of dialogue concerning racism. Essentially, I speak not to air grievances.
It's been my experience that airing grievances gets attached to injustice, which in turn get attached to identifying who/what to blame, which in turn leads to restitution. And each step along the way is filled with pitfalls that provoke defensive responses.
Ultimately, the goal is to share what it was, and how well or poorly I responded to it, and hoping for understanding. I'm sure along the way I'll state something in a way that's going to prompt some sort of defensive response, so I'll apologize for that up front.
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