The diversity of people should be celebrated instead of being used as a benchmark to divide and segregate. What happens when people are ignorant—have no knowledge of anything—is that we create even greater divides—an ever-widening gap—between people when we should be coming together as one race—the human race. And then we wonder why we can’t get along with one another.
If we took the time—and it will
take time—to review history and to cultivate our knowledge of each other and
the ills of the past in order to keep them from resurfacing, then and only then
will we understand the need to stop blaming one group of people for the demise
of things and get ourselves together to build instead of tearing down. When we
think that the world’s ills are because of one group of people, we deceive
ourselves. The problems of our world are not problems caused by White people,
Black people, Red people, Brown people or Yellow people. The problems in our
world are caused by greedy, needy, and lazy people. And many of the greedy,
needy, and lazy use religious banners to justify what they do—in error—or they
use what they think is their superiority over others.
Here’s a newsflash—there is no
superior race or religion—there are simply people who have chosen to think they
are superior by the very nature of their birth or affiliation with others who
think they are superior. And while there is no superior group of people, there
is also no inferior group of people. We are all in the same boat—living on
planet earth—an environment that desperately needs to be overhauled so this
planet—the only one in which know has life—can continue to support life for
future generations.
Instead of hating one another
because of skin color or religious beliefs or nonbelief, why can’t we take the
time to get to know one another, share what we know and help one another to
grow—increasing awareness of need and perspective based upon how we all view
life through the lenses that have been a part of our growth?
For the most part—many Black
people do not understand how to amass wealth because we are too busy spending
money rather than investing money—in our children and in our futures. We’d
rather spend two hundred dollars for a pair of gym shoes than ten dollars for a
book. We’d rather look good—spending tons of money beyond our means—than in reading
and expanding our knowledge on how the world really works. We’d rather complain
about minimum wage jobs than to continue our education in order to obtain the
skills we need to live the lives we want. We know nothing about volunteerism
because we think we should be paid for every little thing we do. We have our
children grow up thinking that someone owes them something, when the reality is
no one other than their parents owe them anything, but the parents haven’t
figured that out yet and we know this by those who still think, everything they
want—should be handed to them.
We complain about White people
and how they do things, but we don’t understand that it’s not about how White
people do things to accomplish goals, but about people understanding that
without goals and purposes and work to accomplish them, nothing ever happens or
changes. A quality education makes a huge difference in the perspectives people
have in life—knowing that nothing worthwhile is ever simply handed to anyone,
but must be earned.
On the other hand—many White
people think that Black people are lazy, good-for-nothing, trouble-makers.
There are just as many white people who are lazy and good-for-nothing trouble
makers as any other group of people. The problem is the perception of any group
of people is colored by media coverage—the news, the movies, and the music. If
we bothered to take the time to get to know one another, we might discover that
underneath the surface lies the same color blood, bone, tissue, marrow, and
muscle. Our hearts have the same rhythm (for the most part) and the blood flows
in the same direction, carrying oxygen to our brains—allowing us to “think”
before we act. We simply choose to have
differing opinions and likes and dislikes which should be respected, not abhorred
or demeaned. If God had wanted clones—He could have managed that, but He chose
to create us uniquely, wonderful, individuals with a purpose designed by Him,
not people.
