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> He was one of three soldiers who failed the test at the Windsor base. > The identities of the other guardsmen have not been revealed. sigh https://t.co/uQWzZc4vc8
I sigh because this feels like a metaphor for my entire life as a tall brown minority person if I do wrong amongst a group of other people who are also doing wrong, 90% of the time, I get singled out and made an example of such is (our) life
incidentally, this experience makes me very sympathetic to women, who go through something similar – and i'm always confused when brown folks aren't feminist or when feminists are indifferent to racial prejudice it's all the same struggle https://t.co/B4Ykp0mCgo
storytime: i'm 15 years old, in secondary school every am, the school assembles for flag raising before it starts, kids obviously talk with one another discipline master: "visakan veerasamy! you like to talk a lot is it!" school laughs 1,500+ boys, I get singled out me_irl https://t.co/AghYBu9JaN
random pic of singaporean school kids from google you see that big brown kid I bet you he gets singled out for doing things everyone else does I don't know him, but I know what it's like to be him it's not fun https://t.co/Mz5KC5AH7c
I bet the same was true for dudes like barack obama and trevor noah learn to fly, or burn out https://t.co/26VSqhtcvg
I’m not kidding about the hero thing - I was *obsessed* with it. My username everywhere was “visaisahero”. I think I’ve always felt, as a misfit, that an ordinary life was not for me. It felt like I was either going to have to learn to fly, or burn out https://t.co/4D3akGhthD
learn to fly, or burn out https://t.co/dWx9DfDSGV
Obama still blows my mind, too. A non-Hawaiian in Hawaii. A non-Indonesian in Indonesia. A Christian with a Muslim name. A half-Black dude in white society. A half-White guy in black society. No in-group. No table at the cafeteria. No way to blend in, no archetype to follow. https://t.co/RJsTacaHbO
lmaooo this birthday cake my friends made for me in 2010 https://t.co/tvpvd62vxv
