It's all too prevalent, this "crime" of noticing.  You start looking at things.  Digging into statistics.  Monitoring trends.  Delving more deeply into the historical accounts and data.  Pattern recognition becomes ever more the norm.  You can't unsee what you've seen or unknow what you now know.  It bothers you, but it also awakens you.  That's your first mistake. The second is that you start to verbalize what you've noticed.  The information you have seen.  The wider context.  The connections.  The ongoing, consistent reality that certain people, certain groups are disproportionately a part of what's happening, whatever that may be.  It's not just some narrative being spun, but facts.  Unavoidable, inexorably linked facts.  Something one avoids only if he consciously refuses to break free from...(Read Full Post)