Mutually Human

Raise your hand if you remember watching Roots.  Or Selma.  Or Straight Out Of Compton.

Keep your hand raised if you are a white person who felt some shame and even a little bit of guilt as you left the theater for what racist white people did in those films.

Yeah, me too.  I wanted to pull a Jerry Maguire and run around hugging everyone while announcing “I love black people!”  Just to make sure nobody thought any of those bigots in the movie represented me. 

I get the feeling that the Muslim taxi driver who picked us up from the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City probably felt the same way. 

The museum is not for the faint of heart.  It's a 3 hour self guided tour of.......

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