roachboy

you didn't read the post, jorgelito.
i'd apologize, but i am not responsible for your choices in terms of selective reading.

1. i made a clear distinction between the events themselves and the grief of those who lost people, and the way the events--and by extension that grief--has been stepped on in the construction of this miserable, racist narrative at the center of the "war on terror"--and i meant it.

2. the post was about *my* experience that day, and there is nothing you can say, no claim that you can make, and no level of misreading you can manage that makes *my* experience of that day any more or less meaningful than your own.

3. as a human being, i'm sorry about your loss--maybe i should have put that in--but it was early in the morning and i just wrote what i remembered--and i'm sorry for that omission.

4. but the world is like that, jorgelito--not everything, not everyone's memory, is connected to an event like the attacks in nyc in the same way. the fact that there are differences in perspective does not mean that one overrides the other. we are long past that point.

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