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Folks, this is beautiful. I hear it as a form of Mind Your Own Damn Business, stated politely for a prime time audience. Can we try this for race, religion, orientation, ethnicity, and any of the other stupid things we choose to use against people? Morgan freeman solves the race problem
How come our President hasn’t stated it like this?
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So we should study everyone’s history as it arises, not devoting particular emphasis to anyone, and history should be recounted objectively and fairly, with no particular point of view? If only it were that simple. Typically the idea of “color blindness” ends up meaning that the reality that predominates is the reality of the powerful. Take Texas, where some powerful people decided they didn’t like separation of church and state, and, poof!, Thomas Jefferson is no longer considered among the framers of our democracy in the textbooks they buy.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” If we wish to be one nation, we must agree upon common ground. If we wish to be one people, we must understand that we are all human, we all love, we all aspire and desire, that these are the basis for our commonality. It is the things that we have in common that bind us together, but the more we seek to differentiate, self-define, and label, will drive us apart.
Perhaps our commonality could include respecting people’s definitions of themselves? Otherwise, whose reality do we all accept?