What did you actually think and feel and notice in your body. You need a safe space to be able to do that. You need a political context to be able to do that. So in a way, in looking at the particular, you end up with the universal. To me that seems so clear.
Oppression is oppression.
Being the underdog is being the underdog. Being treated with contempt is being treated with contempt. Being treated violently is being treated violently. People respond the same way to it. When you get right down to it, pain is pain.