Today, I read an Op-Ed piece from John Edgar Wideman in the NewYork Times:This is a story about a black person (who is a professor at Brown University). He has to ride an AMTRACK train from New York city to Providence. Over the four years period, he learned that the seat next to him is almost always empty. Nobody really wants to sit next to him. Why?
His conclusion is "because I can’t accept the bounty of an extra seat without remembering why it’s empty, without wondering if its emptiness isn’t something quite sad. And quite dangerous, also, if left unexamined. "
Very disturbing evidence of why we tend to focus more on our differences than our similarities as human beings.
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