At what point should we decide to care about someone we don't know?
Glover's new short film, Second Line, suggests that we should care as soon as we see them. I get that. I really do. But I have to admit that it's hard, sometimes, to stop for a person you don't know, to give them something of yourself, only to face rejection.
Just the other day, in my typical mad dash to get to the gym on time, I accidentally dropped three music CDs. They rolled into the middle of a busy intersection. For a second, I thought about rushing back to retrieve them, but I kept moving, certain that the drivers would honk or worse, hit me if I dared to stand in their way between work and home.
A man with gentle eyes and a graying afro stopped his car. He yelled from his window, "You dropped your CDs." I told him that I knew, but then he pointed to the passenger in his car and said: "He'll go get them for you.
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