<p>yes i agree about the scope. But everything is always filtered through indvidual eyes as the lived center of the world. I worry that you sometimes don’t look beyond the surface of those fluffy-haired smiling white faces floating by. Scratch the surface and those shiny clueless teeth often will shatter into a thousand mummytomb curses. Now yes the curse may not originate within the societal infrastructures that subject blacks to unbearable pressures but lost is lost,…truly happy people are so rare that in any single day it registers bigtime when I see a spontaneous instance of joy. Miserable in a big shiny car or on a crowded bus might not appear all that different to the cosmic eye.</p>
<p>Forgive me if I seem to cast a people’s collective suffering into relative terms, but I suspect money to be so often the easy culprit and believe, from my hanging around the middleclass, that these matters are poorly understood.</p>