So my dad worked for UNICEF for nearly 30 years, and other UN agencies through out the rest of it.

I basically grew up in that community in NY, Ive been going to the main blg and the UNICEF bld since babyhood. He was also very outspoken for the palestinian cause since forever.

He educated everyone he had ever met on it as well. And personally changed the perspective on a bunch of his friends.

hes been gone since 2012 and I really wonder what he would have said. So many little comments he had mentioned in passing had come true. He was really knowledgable on world affairs

I think he would be pleasently surprised by the movement as it is. and of course horrified at the genocide. But man i wish he was around for his insight on things.

they may instate palestinian statehood in the un tomorrow and Im really hoping for it

He left America post 911 to his home country of bangladesh and I had resented him for dragging be back then

i resented him for years bc ofc it was a huge culture shock for me.

ragweed:

But as a grownup I get it.

I get why he never took a US passport

despite living here for so long

He said he pays taxers to the UN and not the US

and why he left as well. It was good for him as a cis male from the dominant religion and the upper class there.

of course it was a good move for him

not so much for my brother or i but I do get where he is coming from.

I am grateful to have grown up around such a global community.

and sometime i wanna fuck off out of the US

but I do love this city with my heart