Sleep...why bother?
So what that I'm sitting here almost at 12:30 am on a Sunday night and I barely want to even consider laying my head down on a pillow? I have too many things to ponder about before I can do that. Who am I kidding? I really don't have any issues I really need to think about. Little 'ol un-important me.
Today after going to drop of the CDs I made for the Dragon City's boss's daughter, I went over to Produce (a grocery store full of fresh fruits and veggies at low prices) where Zhen was shopping. I first picked up a bottle of wine and then some treats for later on in the week (possibly for the plane trip over to San Francisco). When we were checking out, two regular young Caucasian girls were scanning and bagging our groceries. Without even a hint of a hello or such, they started going through the motions. Well when they finished almost everything, they mentioned toward the bottle of wine and in one of the most disgusted tones said "we don't sell wine on Sunday's". So I told them "fine, never mind" and went on ahead in getting ready to pay for my purchases. In less than a minute from that incident, the girl who was doing the grocery bagging let out in a screech/shriek "Hi! How are you?" with a huge grin on her face. One would have thought that she met God himself. It was just some Caucasian lady with her grandchild. My point in bringing all this up is I feel that even in this day of age, we (the outsiders, the foreingners, the people of color) are still being treated as dirt. The way those girls treated us, even so unimportant to us in our life...just a small ripple in our ocean...felt like a knife stabbing through all my major organs to me. I cringed when I saw her act toward the other person. I just wanted to dig a hole and bury myself in it. Someday, possibly not when I'm still on this Earth. It will all change.
Today after going to drop of the CDs I made for the Dragon City's boss's daughter, I went over to Produce (a grocery store full of fresh fruits and veggies at low prices) where Zhen was shopping. I first picked up a bottle of wine and then some treats for later on in the week (possibly for the plane trip over to San Francisco). When we were checking out, two regular young Caucasian girls were scanning and bagging our groceries. Without even a hint of a hello or such, they started going through the motions. Well when they finished almost everything, they mentioned toward the bottle of wine and in one of the most disgusted tones said "we don't sell wine on Sunday's". So I told them "fine, never mind" and went on ahead in getting ready to pay for my purchases. In less than a minute from that incident, the girl who was doing the grocery bagging let out in a screech/shriek "Hi! How are you?" with a huge grin on her face. One would have thought that she met God himself. It was just some Caucasian lady with her grandchild. My point in bringing all this up is I feel that even in this day of age, we (the outsiders, the foreingners, the people of color) are still being treated as dirt. The way those girls treated us, even so unimportant to us in our life...just a small ripple in our ocean...felt like a knife stabbing through all my major organs to me. I cringed when I saw her act toward the other person. I just wanted to dig a hole and bury myself in it. Someday, possibly not when I'm still on this Earth. It will all change.
posted by June at 12:48 AM
2 Comments:
Importance of things of earthm flesh, flesh color really has a hold on you, bud, and others also. If it's worth anything to you (as this an exhortation on the Internet), you've got a soul that's worth more than you know.
I hope those gals down at the grocery store understand that too, about themselves and you.
G'night
Dear friend of mine, there's some things in this world that puzzles the best of us. It's shameful that in our day and age, some people act as if they're better than someone else, when in essence, they're truly the ones that are lower than dirt. One would think that we have overcame, but there's a long time before that can fully occur. Stay true and take care.
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