Last night was one of the most frightening experiences of my life. It awakened me to realizing the extent to which some people dwell in their hatred and anger.
Rachel and i and a few of our friends were at Ocean Beach spinning fire, it was one of my best nights i've had in a very long time. I burned twice without any hesitation, totaly comfortable with the poi orbiting around me. It was such a beautiful night. We build a fire in a fire pit and were just chillin, breaking out singing bob marley and just having a good time. Around the time we were thinking about heading out these 3 drunk guys and a girl came up to our fire to warm up. With all the tweakers and all the random beach bums who would come by and chill and maybe wacth us spin poi and mumble about general lee i always felt safe. These guys totaly made me feel uneasy from the start. They crowded around the fire and we all kinda backed away to wait for them to leave.
Then one of them mentioned something about skinheads, we asked them what defines a skinhead and he just went off. He informed us that jews are aliens, aparently, which i did not know. Also, he is so wise to say that the karan is a "bullshit jewish thing". Wow! all i can say is wow. They went off about how 'educated'(aka brainwashed) they were and how they were full of pride for their race. Basicly it was like talking to a wall trying to argue with these guys, they were so fucking ignorant. Its pointless to even relate the argument, i'm sure you can imagine it... us giving them the facts, them telling us jews are parasites and that we're stupid. So we just decided it was best to take off, cause ofcourse, this is 'their beach' . They started to get reall intense, it was just incredible to see how the hatred that runs through their veins distorts their face. They looked like dogs that were just waiting for someone to make eyecontact so that they could attack. One of the 3 kids almost looked normal before he started backing his friends up. Before the argument began he was talking about how these guys found him, on the street drunk, and he felt belonging with them. Then during the argument he tried to throw in something, some 'logic' that he had probably learned from his charismatic leader who meanwhile sat back with his girl drinking and throwing beer bottles into the fire waiting for the moment that he would unleash his wisdom and philosphy and logic on us 'uneducated people who watch too much tv'. You can tell the second kid was trying hard to show what he had learned from them. "by this conversation i can tell that youre jewish.." "so what if i am?" "well nothing... but by this conversation i can tell youre jewish".... Then after all this as we decided to walk away, the 'leader' got up and started spewing his bs at us "see? youre so weak! you cant even take the straight truth! u asked him what a skinhead was and you cant take the truth..."
Well all in all it was a crazy experience. I guess it was kinda a slap in the face, realizing people like this really exist, in OB of all places. Every place has to have a pocket of those that are just out there. Im not quiet sure what to make of it... Its truly amazing to the hate that theyll admit to and be proud of. All day today i almost felt like i cant trust strangers anymore... i think that feeling will go away, but this definately was an awakening just to beware....

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~LILIYA