The past year and a half

I haven't posted in a year and a half. I would like to apologize to my many eager and restless fans for keeping you in limbo. I know enduring my silence is an irksome affair, but hopefully you survived without knowing any intricate, insignificant details of the life of your favorite comedy icon, me. 

I'm going to post something every week from now on. Hopefully it's funny. Usually it will be short. 

Here's this week's message: I've been thinking a lot about Daryl Davis. 

Daryl Davis is a black man who attends KKK rallies and befriends Klan members. He knows that every person there believes he is inferior because of the color of his skin. He knows that the organization with whose members he is fraternizing is responsible for countless atrocities towards members of his race. He obviously does not agree with what they stand for. Yet he shows up, he exchanges niceties, he shows empathy towards all, regardless of whether they deserve it. He actively seeks understanding, and he changes people's minds, not by yelling at them, but by listening to them. He became one of their own, and when you are in the inner circle, people are more receptive to your ideas. That little bit of diversity is peacefully dismantling hate from the inside out. What Daryl Davis does takes true strength. That is how I aspire to be. He is my hero. 

To my gargantuan, eager, impressionable fan base, I say this: Try to show empathy towards people you think don't deserve it. Especially on social media. 

That's it for the week. 

Let's not be assholes. Then the assholes win :)