Cultural Diversity Panel
Last night, I was given the wonderful opportunity to be part of a panel of speakers regarding cultural diversity. There were four speakers, myself, an African-American, a gay person, and someone whose name matches a name on the terror watch list. It was an interesting two hours. I was humbled after listening to the other three speakers. I didn’t know if my story about David was as important as the stories each of them told. Their stories were much more involved than what I write about here. So much more, but in the end, their stories are theirs, and not mine to tell. Their stories were about: About being a United States Citizen and having to prove certain things in order to be able to fly again. About being gay and not being able to visit a loved one in the hospital because you aren’t “family”. About being a black