Matthew Spira
1 min readJan 23, 2021

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I'm reminded of an old Ann Landers or Abby where a woman wrote in about she and her husband having retired to a community in Florida where all the couples would take turns hosting communal dinners. When it came their turn, they very deliberately excluded the gay couple because, of course, they just couldn't condone that lifestyle. And she was absolutely shocked that all the neighbors in response shunned her and her husband. Her plea was they weren't bad people, that where they came from, there were no gay people so that was just the natural thing to do. The response, if I remember correctly, was essentially to grow up.

I think a lot of white people in America "don't see color" because their interactions with people of color are minimal, so they have little appreciation of what Black people have to go through on a daily basis. As the father of Black children, I can't unsee how America is already treating them.

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Matthew Spira
Matthew Spira

Written by Matthew Spira

Middle-aged dude. Combat veteran & single father. Eclectic career. Poet.

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