Some people claim that the only reason a white person would care about the plight of non-white people is because of "white guilt" but the actual reason is empathy.
I grew up in Brooklyn and I learned many Arabic phrases in the process. One development I really love is the online culture in radical spaces where members drop "Salam Alaykum" or "inshallah" as a kind of cultural Islam of the web.
I had a song in my head for the past couple days and the algorithm just recommended it to me. It's an old song from 30 years ago and I never said its name out loud or hummed it.
You cry when something hurts your feelings.
I weep at my perception of sublime and transcendental beauty in an ever expanding variety of manifestations.
We are not the same.