Come Together

They say racism is dead but its clearly not.I see prejudice everyday on the news. People just like you and me  divided into class, race,culture,ethnicity,disability, religion. etc. Enough with it all ready can't we just be humans?. What would it take for us all to be seen as equals. My skin might be white but I am not heartless. I would like to see one day my fellow humans be able to walk down the street without being judged by the color of their skin or what they might be wearing on their heads.

I see racism everyday walking down the street I have a neighbor who likes to hang his confederate flag out side of his window in San Francisco. One of the most liberal cities in America. I get that we have free speech and I am not against it but there's I time and place for something like that but I don't want to see something like that and I don't think any other decent person does either. it has no place in my neighbor hood across the street from a middle school for all the kids to see it and I don't really think a message or racism is really the best message to be sending to young impressionable people.

Everyday on the news I see more than a one racist bigoted article on the morning news. More white on black crime done by cops or white supremacists and we are sitting here more worried sometimes about getting bombed by terrorists in the middle east when we have our own homegrown backyard terrorists like the KKK and neo nazis to worry about who pose more of a threat to us than the terrorists over seas. We forget that we have our own problems to deal with. America isn't all sunshine and roses either folks.

A white guy guns down nine innocent black people in a church during a prayer service and the cops dress him in a bullet proof vest and burger king. Then you have the innocent unarmed black kids getting gunned down on the streets for crimes they did not commit. Then some people feel that they have the right to complain because of the protesting. Then you have even more violence and robberies which don't solve anything.

I look through the articles on Yahoo and if there is any kind of article involving Muslims weather its good or bad you always get the comments to follow that are sometimes almost just as bad as the article its self usually about something hateful like "all the Muslims want to kill us" or some ridiculous stereotype about Muslims like that they can't be friends with non Muslims.  Some of these comments are even threatening and nobody does anything about it. In my opinion if someone is threatening to kill a Muslim person or any person then they are just as bad as the terrorists.

People don't seem to talk about Islamophobia the same way that they do other types of racism. Its becoming a big problem, its getting worse and the media is not helping the situation. Earlier this year we had three young Muslims that were gunned down by some white guy over what they believed in and the media called it a parking dispute. Excuse me that wasn't a parking dispute and the media knows it. They were not terrorists but innocent young people trying to better themselves in college and Unless we do something about it its only going to get worse in my view and we are only going to see more crimes like this one.

Black, white, Christian, Jewish, Muslim it's time for us to destroy the prejudice and stereotypes that divide us because when we come together we can do great things. Its going to be a sad day when we become so blinded by hate and fear that we forget that we are all human beings and to treat each other with kindness, care, respect , dignity, LOVE AND EQUALITY.