Connection...

In my opinion everyone should have at least one good friend. It doesnt have to be your best friend but just someone you can connect with or someone who will always be there whenever you arent OK. For me, almost everyone I meet, most of the time, I can connect with him/her. There is only one problem...and please dont take me the wrong way when I say this...they are mostly white.

The reason being, is because I basically do not fit the stereotype for what most people perceive a black person to be. I can safely say that I am not alone out there. I have talked to many people of my race who feel the same way. Its not that dislike our culture, its just that some of the things like talking ghetto or dressing a certain way that some blacks dress just dont appeal to some of us, and, basically it might pertain more to a white person. I know Im being a little stereotypical, but its how the world is perceived nowadays.

The main reason for this post is to state how I connect with both black people and white people, and if you are reading this with a stereotypical mind then you would say that I do not connect with both because you perceive them to be totally different. But if you arent reading this that way then you would say that I do in a sense that I perceive the world to be the same yet we all, of course, have different interests no matter what race.

Anyway, to this day it is hard for me to connect fully with both races because of their inate observation on race and its "difference". Although, every day I thank God in some way for not making me so ignorant in regards to that and letting me see the big picture, that all people are the same. It has always been a goal for me to break those barriers, and I will continue to make the connection.