The Commute

Today I had to put my car in the shop, the shop which is unfportunately all the way on the other side of the city from where I work. So what this means is that I am forced to wake up at a completely ungodly hour and trek across the city on the way to work on the bus. Shit, I hate the bus, this here trip is bearable for one reason only and that is that it is spring break in the city right now and therefore the morning buses are not packed with 8 million loud mouthed teenagers trying to be cool/ hard. Anyway as I take the bus all of a sudden the bus just pulls over. Why? You may ask... Well aparently the driver is off and the new driver is late and so we just wait on the street and apparently this is all normal. The thing that keeps coming back to me is that we often forget how shitty of a life we expect the "others" to accept and not bitch about. The chasm between the haves and have nots would cause much more outrage, I believe if we were ever actually forced to see one another. It is precisely this out of site out of mind perspective that allows us sometimes to get lost in our little bougie snow globes and get convinced that we or someone we know could possibly know EVERYBODY underlying statement being everybody that "matters."
This brings me to where we currently are in the Obama campaign, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is being called out on statements that he made that middle America (white) is saying is so radical. People are questioning how could people as successful as the Obama's feel anything but undying pride in America. They proceeded to go on and call things that Blacks consider to be fairly normal completely crazy and out of the mainstream, but then again Black America is out of sight and out of mind in America...