I want to make a website that shows the history of America and it’s cars. I was watching Band of Brothers last week and

I was a white guy living in Harlem. NYC averages 8000 people on each block. I only knew two other white people that living on our block, and they were both my roommates.; The other 7997 were mostly black, some Latino. I got a different perspective on what it means to be a minority.

One of my neighbors said something about white people, then blurted out, “I pray we don’t have to go back to the 50′s. In the 22 years of my life, I had never heard anyone say something negative about the 1950′s.

It dawned on me that every time an old black man sees a ’57 Chevy, he doesn’t remember that as the “good old days.” For my entire life I’ve waxed nostalgic about past generations of cars, and have been utterly ignorant about the era surrounding them. I think most other white people are as ignorant as me, especially teenagers.

How many people were getting fat and driving fancy cars while millions of Jews were murdered? In “Band of Brothers,” a American soldier holds a baker at gunpoint. The baker was furious that the soldiers were looting his shop to feed thousands in a concentration camp on the other side of town. The baker said, “What concentration camp?”

It makes me wonder about all the suffering that’s going on in the world while we pimp our rides. Am I rich and ignorant?