Some time ago I was sitting with my buddy looking out over the bay at Sausalito, enjoying a beverage in a restaurant bar. I remarked how blessed we were. He said, 'Yes, but there are many people all over the world enjoying similar views.'
He's black. Born in Eritrea, moved to this country as a tweenager, and spent a couple decades working in Japan as a chemist for the same company, right out of college. Had a white American said what he said, the statement would have sounded callous and arrogant.
