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Setting Differential Prejudices Aside |
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Written by James Landrith
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Thursday, 13 November 2003 |
Adam Abraham, writing for The Multiracial Activist on The ‘Life Dividends’ of Equality and Excellence: Finding Reasons to Set ‘Differential Prejudices’ Aside
My heart reaches out to all the people who lost their homes in the devastating fires of 2003 in Southern California, and to those who paid the ultimate price with their lives. With a move to the Sacramento area in September that now looks like the work of Providence, it is humbling to see how I was taken out of harms way, that I might experience life in another way.
While fires in California in late summer are certainly no surprise, it’s safe to say that no one thought that the area would sustain a conflagration of such magnitude. The area where I lived in San Diego was evacuated as the fires crept within one more “Santa Ana leap” of wiping out the entire neighborhood. Fortunately, for those that still call the area home, that leap never came.
Read the rest here.
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