Got invited to play in a golf event yesterday. Shared a cart with this 65 year old black dude originally from the projects of Baltimore. It was a slow *ss round so me and this guy were chopping it up. He said he came up during the heroin epidemic of the '70's in Baltimore and his mom would check him and his brother's arms and legs each night before bed to make sure there were no needle marks. He was talking about his favorite TV shows of the '70's Sanford and Son and Archie Bunker and how neither of them could be made today. And ultimately how he got out of the projects and made his way to the West Coast.
There wasn't a single lick of politics discussed but he did say one thing (we had been discussing racial things) that I thought so true, we are all way may similar than we are different. You would never know it reading a board like this but it was one of those just look at each other and fist bump moments. As Andy said in Shashank Redemption, hope is a good thing.