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what matters more,

derek webb

what it comes down to

is this:

you cannot say you care about them

unless you are willing to identify with them.

whoever 'they' are, 

it applies to whatever context,

indeed

the 'they' disappears

as the identification enters

because it gets replaced 

with 'us'.

i wondered earlier on

that i feel my life may make more sense

if i actually was ____.

instead of just alongside,

actually am.

but i have no control over that.

what i do have, though,

is the option to either

'care', 

silently

or care,

actively,

thus sharing in all the oppression and the anger and the hurt and the despair.

if he

or she

is not accepted

then i refuse to be either.