I'm Just Sayin...

Sometime during the Summer of 2016, a guy and a girl went on a blind date. A seemingly innocuous event one might think, but then all hell broke loose. They came for her with viciousness. portrait by Keith Boldy Why?   Perhaps an intimate relationship between a bi-racial woman and a Prince , 6 th in line to the British throne awakens, for certain people, their deepest fear buried in the farthest hinterland of the reptilian brain : the fea r of annihilation.  Pause here for a moment to consider other seemingly innocuous events that  triggered a frenzied response, social and political upheaval and eventually, change .   In 1893, a 24-year-old Indian lawyer arrived to work in Natal, South Africa. Within weeks of his arrival he was thrown off a first-class train compartment when a white passenger protested against sharing the carriage with a “coolie.”    Three years later Ghandi returned to India and the rest is history....