White & Western

I was driving with a tall, strong Tongan man. He told me how much he was struggling being in America, especially with the sense of loss of his roots and those things most precious. He told me how he was working hard to adapt to the white man’s world as best he could.  

I, this little white man, hugged this towering Tongan while he cried.  I told him, “We don’t need you to become white and Western. You are a king of the earth, and we need your glory to bring light to who we all are together."  Continue....

-- Wm. Paul Young