thanks Colkoch for your great open heart, sharp mind, always. 

For many of us, persons like yourself, who listen as though you 'are one of us' brings closer not just understanding, but standing together to help one another gain parity, to comfort as the twists of fate befall us all. 

Tiring to keep trying to educate others about actual issues that lie under all the nicely tended surface gardens that hide the bones of the victims. But, and, as far as we can tell, that is the only way to not only realize the beatitudes ourselves, but also to help mend some of the past by being alert and active in good ways other than simply intellectual ways, in the present... and ever looking to people like you and others here, to walk with us, and us with you without trying to crow about conversions, without trying to destroy others' cultures by mis-stating that your God and our God are not the same. 

The blessing of privilege/entitlement means to me that one has more resouces to serve others MORE.