Whether we are discussing the differences in race, color, ethnicity, creed, gender, or political or financial status, we must realize that on this planet, there is only one race, the human race.
Sometimes we try to hide our prejudices behind other reasons, to justify the positions we take about gender, politics, social or financial status, the environment, religion, or any other way we human beings use to suppress the voice of others.
We are more alike than any difference we profess.
The root cause of prejudice is fear, not hatred. While certain groups may be extremely angry about an issue, the underlying cause of anger is fear.
Why are we so afraid of other people, their belief system, their culture, their gender?
Think of how we respond to someone expressing a different viewpoint, or addressing uncomfortable issues such as immigration, politics, homelessness and hungry children in our country and the world.
Fear promotes radical groups in any of the human categories mentioned. If we are truly serious about fixing our world, before we can build any bridges to repair the damage we have caused, we must eradicate the root cause of fear.
War, murder and killing are not communication skills.
Although we have made great progress in many countries in the world on various forms of prejudice in years gone by, we have greatly regressed these past few years.
Along with the vote giving voice to prejudice as a positive trait they think human beings ought to have, inciting actions that harm life among certain factions of human beings in the USA, it has also given voice to the extreme fascists living among us. To act to the detriment of people based on prejudices is not an opinion, it is a crime.
There is more to do, more to share, more to learn, more to understand, more to forgive, more to let go. It is not about being right, or wrong, or making others right or wrong. There is no way to make up for the loss of life through war, violence, bloodshed, or retaliation. Two wrongs do not make a right. We need to build bridges to and for all people everywhere.
Despite all our unique differences, we all share this one beautiful planet. We are all born in the same way, we all breathe air while we are here, and we all die. We are all having a shared human experience. Our life is in our blood, without which we would cease to be. No one soul is better than any other soul on this planet, no matter what our pride (insane ego) might be telling us.
It is the radical element in every type of human being that makes us less than human. To make this point better, here is a partial list of every type of human being: LGBT, straight, man, woman, black, white, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, the hundreds of various religions, atheist, agnostic, tall, short, blue eyes, brown eyes, green eyes, hazel eyes, amber eyes, disabled, healthy; and people from America including Puerto Rico and Guam of course, Cuba, Canada, Central America, Mexico, South America, Australia, England, Portugal, France, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Holland, Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium, Monaco, Spain, Greenland, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Syria, Israel, Jordan, China, Tibet, Saudi Arabia, EUA, Africa, Yemen, Oman, Mongolia, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and the rest of the 193 countries in our beautiful world.
Not every person in every country is a criminal, nor a terrorist. It is time we focus on what brings us together, and heal what is broken with love, understanding, empathy, and stop vilifying every other person who is not like us, or believe exactly the way we do. We need to promote justice with fairness rather than bullying ego.
There is only one race on this planet.
It’s the human race.