Draft mode

A thought while strolling the neighborhood this am---before I left I was listening to the radio and so in my head, during the stroll, were the recent headline issues. Number one was a to-do over bullying in a middle school, number two was a hissy fit over two little white girls who sing about wanting to stay white and number three was some nonsense about Louis Farrakhan (sp) who wants to stay black.

I thought that maybe it's time that we start to stress commonalities instead of diversities. Emphasize the fact that we are all human to begin with and the only truly major distinction is gender. Yes, no matter how you fight it, there are men and there are women.

I had an epiphany regarding Moses and the Law. The Law was to set apart the children of Israel and also to teach them that they couldn't be saved by the Law. No matter how stringently they worked at following every single do or don't, they failed. Men decided that they knew better than God, what else is new, and added to the perfection of the Law. Organized religions, cultures, societies, families, all have their own rules of behaviour and each of these man made rules tend to set apart the groups who share them. Language puts the frosting on the cake and truly separates one group from another. When groups are separate, they tend to feel either inferior or superior. Rarely does it happen that a feeling of equality permeates these diverse groups.

In recent years various groups have been encouraged to firm up their unique mores and to keep their cultural bonds as well as language. The USA rather than the "melting pot" it claimed to be is now housing many different cultures and languages within its borders and is attempting to honor each and allow each to be loyal to itself rather than the common culture and laws of the country it lives in. Since each group tends to feel either inferior or superior to any other we have to deal with the respect or disrespect issues. The PC nonsense of our age applies to each of these many groups but not to the country they dwell in or the structure of government which has provided all of the opportunities these groups are enjoying.

I am struggling with this. I am. I don't understand how we can make progress if all of parts don't mesh and worse than that, don't want to.