we need strong black men

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Been over to the Vault, trying to cool my ire, and I'm watching the Gil Scott-Heron documentary and thinking how none of those heroes ever seemed "other" to me. It just occurred to me. They were never "them" to me. I had a Free Angela poster up in my room. Felt as though someone had ripped my lungs out of my chest when they killed Martin. My very first crush on a guy was Harry Belefonte... at like four. He was thrown over for Liberace fairly quickly. Who was, in turn, thrown over for Korla Pandit... all in the space of about a year. I'm trying to think if there ever were any "they"s. I think I have only made any "them" a "they" on a provisional and temporary basis for my whole life.

The most sustained "they" in my whole lexicon is "us".

But it occurs to me that there are black men very well suited to rousing us from our stupor.

THEY are experts at what ails us all.
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Sunny and about 68 degrees all day, and now the temperature is dropping fast and the rain has started. I don't know if we're going to get the light show and the hail and snow with it. The forecast says it's going down to 41 tonight, but... the radar also says there aren't any clouds over me right now... and... so... uhm... that's wrong and I guess anything goes. Old Uncle Dave, who's about 250 miles away, said that it was 48 in the morning and 84 this afternoon, which is a little extreme on both ends for this time of year there. In early Spring it's usually much more like 52 in the morning and 76 in the afternoon in his area. I've only been here for four and a half years, and most of that time I've been a befoggled wreck, so I don't have the best grasp of what's precisely normal for here, but I'm an expert on the Northern California coast, from San Francisco and up through Mendocino, and lows of 41 degrees are reserved for bitter winter storms on the coast. That's the thing about the coast. It's warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer than just a few miles inland. The ocean is supposed to see to that. It seems to be confused this year.
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