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I just watched, and more importantly listened to two men on television.

One younger, twenty-ish, the other considerably older.

As I had come in mid-program, I wasn’t immediately aware that

they were grandson and grandfather. Eventually the relationship

dawned on me, but that’s not why I write.

It was the conversation between them and the conversation

they had with a third party that, frankly, gripped me.

In many ways I heard my own thoughts, my own beliefs

being expressed, eloquently, by these two men.

They are Black, I am White. Where is the divide?, pray tell.

Islander.