Girl walks into a concert wearing a Bob Marley t shirt, short cut off jeans, dread locks all the way down to her hips, and a tie dye bandanna. Man walks up to girl and asks if she would like a joint. Woman replies curtly, clearly outraged, "no I would not what do I look like to you, a woman who likes a pot?" Now many would probably laugh at the the woman in this story thinking well clearly she deserved this approach because of what she was wearing. We saw the woman's clothes and immediately made her into one type of person. She immediately participated in illegal endeavors. I think the woman's speech in the video was very profound when she brought up the one story mindset most people have of other ethnicities as well as in social circumstances. When she brought up how everyone has a story I immediate thought of the song by Brandi Carlile called "The Story". Too perfect right?
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
These lyrics were perfect to me in representing that we do not see what everyone goes through.
We do not know others struggles and to label unjustly is not the right thing to do. The talk opened my eyes to that even more profoundly!
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