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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460956" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>History teaches us...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A stone's throw, just, from Chelsea's football ground, <br>-skinhead territory long before any silverware -<br>there's a barber whose window decorations indicate<br>they're stylists in that tricky, ingrowing black hair; <br>I dropped in there one day; and as the one white face<br>in that busy, proud salon (I took the last spare seat with some relief) <br>spent half an hour or so as a 'minority', <br>as images of identity played out some tennis game of mind<br>across the net of what - division or harmony? <br>was I the face of hated white supremacy, now<br>the hated white minority? Covert glances on both sides...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eventually I settled down, to then enjoy the novel ritual to me: <br>when you're finished, dusted down - rise from the chair, <br>and pause a second or two upon the barber's dais there<br>and face the audience; to be admired for sharp new style<br>which is by implication, tribute to the barber's skill; <br>there's palpably the sound of silent, proud applause<br>(I even dared, now shorn and bolder, to acquiesce, with respect, <br>in just a hint of this attractive ritual...) .<br>And here's the crowning glory of this escapade: <br>they charged me less than for that difficult black hair...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'History teaches us...'<br>...not to trust too much the lessons of history; <br>but rather, learn from how it's working out: <br>emigrate to seek a better life somewhere<br>where faiths and customs are so different<br>and you're the proud, hardworking, strange minority.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then, beware - your children will not want<br>the birthmark of 'minority'; and maybe seek <br>some other pride than that of family, <br>a new identity, some wilder faith<br>than football's common touch, or cricket green; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the hosts and guests of history must learn<br>to seek to learn the lessons both must earn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Romans, empire-builders, had a phrase for this: <br>'lacrymae rerum' - which so gladly, sadly, means<br>the tears of things...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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-skinhead territory long before any silverware -
there's a barber whose window decorations indicate
they're stylists in that tricky, ingrowing black hair; 
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