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Cornel West lectured at my school tonight. Having read his new book, Democracy Matters I was a little apprehensive because I thought I would be not intellectual enough to get a lot of his concepts and I thought he'd be really intense, but he was such a compassionate and provocative speaker. I was engaged with the next topic he would arise. My friend from one of my seminars raised the question to how should she as a white young woman approach (or even should she?) the issue of understanding her multi-racial friend's pain with discrimination and such. He answered her with such compassion acknowledging the difficulty in asking such a question and describing the layers of understanding. Some of his topics were depressingly humorous, some astounding and some hopeful. I really enjoyed it.
So this just in, I'm experiencing this really intense sharp pain in my chest/heart region. I find it a little ironic that I just hung up with Ryan after trying to convince him to stay on the phone longer with me. Am I the biggest self-prophesizing (cough ryan laugh here cough) disallusioned hypochondriac or what? I'm gonna go try and move withouth searing pain in my chest.
I miss my friends.
Love.
So this just in, I'm experiencing this really intense sharp pain in my chest/heart region. I find it a little ironic that I just hung up with Ryan after trying to convince him to stay on the phone longer with me. Am I the biggest self-prophesizing (cough ryan laugh here cough) disallusioned hypochondriac or what? I'm gonna go try and move withouth searing pain in my chest.
I miss my friends.
Love.