The Other: Part of Us

 

 

Bigotry, inequality, and injustice are fueled by the drive to acquire and maintain economic, political, and social advantage-power. Even when race is not a factor brutal oppression exists. World history and current events confirm the truthfulness of the preceding  claim.  

 

Wherever humans are there are efforts by individuals and group(s) to exploit, marginalize, and subjugate others-women, children, the poor, old people, and those physically and or mentally challenged- who share the oppressor’s ethnicity .  

If we humans fail to acknowledge and deal with the fact that oppression of one group by another is a universal human phenomenon, then systematic and systemic oppression will continue, and the gross injustices of the past, like the African Diaspora and Holocaust, are destined to be repeated.                                                                   

God help us all!