The Incomplete Cynic
This fight that’s not really a fight between Hill and Rose is just about wanting to be accepted for who you are. For wanting your experience to be respected as authentic. To be recognized that whether you are poor and from a single parent home or middle class and from a two parent home, your life is respected. Your family is respected. Your history is respected. You aren’t treated as you are less than what you are for being different or not having as much. You want your voice to be heard when you feel that it’s constantly being stifled. You want your story to be treated as an authentic story. This is the cry of everyone who is different, who has felt marginalized in our society, who has felt neglected or who feels their existence is always reduced to stereotype no matter what you do. We always say we’re not a monolith, yet within our ranks people push monolithic beliefs upon us, telling us we have to get into a box and if we don’t fit into that box, we aren’t real people. But we are.
