When I wrote about trying to be a better person and trying to help others yesterday, I didn't mean it in the abstract. Got involved in some organizations that work with the homeless and a prison reform group a while back because those are 2 of the most marginalized groups that...

...I could think of, and homelessness and incarceration impacts a lot of people already marginalized to begin with. I try to look at things from my white straight male perspective, living in a society that was literally built to cater to me (using slave labor and building on...

..top of a mass grave following an ethnic cleansing) and remember that everyone doesn't live in the same America I do, some people live in a much more hostile version, or at least an indifferent version, and I've trimmed weed with gay black men from Eastside Detroit and they...

..may as well have grown up in another country and we grew up a half hour away. One of my eye-openers was listening to dudes talk about how bad their neighborhoods were and offering a couple hours of free handgun training, because I do that for about anyone, and the reaction...

..I got was unexpected, but I've never seen anyone that wanted less to do with firearms and it turns out some people are way more concerned about being shot by police than by gangbangers in their own 'hood. I'm a big 2A guy and it really sank the point home about disparity...

..in rights and policing. Anyway, I try to support marginalized groups, so I donate to my local shelters and I do some volunteer work and advocate for prison reform and lobby to get religion out of politics and was working at a food bank that services 41,000 senior citizens...

..and the implications of 41,000 seniors in the area in need of food assistance is kind of staggering. The food bank, Focus: Hope, referred to the Detroit riots as a civil rebellion and I thought that was interesting, and my dad fought in those riots as an infantryman and I'm...

..ok with trying to see it from a different perspective because that's what empathy is to begin with, to view the world through another's perspective. There's only 1 objective truth, 1 objective reality, but we view it through 7.5 billion subjective lenses. Our weltanschauung...

..and now I feel like I'm rambling, but my point is that one should seek to alleviate suffering and serve one's community, if at all possible. Start with those who are under-served. Look to the margins. Like Jesus would've.