Wish this site had fb’s “like” buttons. I particularly liked your second to last sentence. I’ve seen a lot of people talking about “White Privilege” on this site, but not so much about “Blue Privilege.” I absolutely get that they’re putting their lives on the line for their communities and hopefully most of them are…

It might also help to remember that the commandment is to “honor” your mother and your father, not that you have to “love” them. As one novel I read pointed out, of COURSE it’s hard to honor your mother and father...if it was EASY it wouldn’t have to be one of the ten basic commandments. I’m glad that Panama has…

Honest people can recognize injustice. I’m not excusing Panama’s mother, but I suspect she hooked up with a black man before she truly understood what she was getting into (and what young girl can really understand what they’re getting into when they’re marrying outside of their community—whether religious or ethnic)…

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