Sunday, February 7, 2010

Race

Yesterday, I was watching a video which caught my attention. It was mas by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), about a single word with a long history: race.
It was mainly about the United States, but we all know that race is an idea created by people in the past, but many people in the present keep using it, why? There are my reasons, but the question, is why those reasons?
We all are aware of racism, a global issue particularly in the field of society, created by our ancestors, to define a person's value because of their wealth, their culture, but mainly, their color. One example could be african people, forced to work as slaves during the colonies, and people used to discriminate them, saying they had no soul, they weren't humans. Over time, physicall appearence mattered, and african people belonged to the last place in the new social stucture based primarily in skin color. It's just absurd to watch how people can do those kind of things, in 1776, United States, one of the national's heroes of USA, Thomas Jefferson, wrote that are men are created equal in the National Declaration of Independence, when he was a slave-holder, shocking...
What right do people have, to start pointing fingers to others, and say that they are less than human just for being different, if we look close, we are much alike. Everyone has feelings, thoughts, dreams, goals, but the color of our skin shouldn't be something that has to do with who we are, we all are born with the same rights, it's how God wanted it to be, and we humans created a system in which we are allowed to hate others, to believe they're nothing.
It is a matter we see all around the globe, but we have to understand, we are all humans, we have to accept those who different from us, because we're different from them, and we want to be accepted as well. Let's for one day, treat others as we want us to be treated, let's love life and those with who we share it, and for one moment stop hating. Let's start making conscience.

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