Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease

The other day you asked me my friend, who I am I replied: I am you in another body! Yes, it is true look, how much alike we are, no matter what, the color, the creed the race the status. Look, I am born and I die I suffer and I enjoy I love and I hate, just like you! I am a father, a brother, a son, a mother, a sister, a daughter, just like you! Happiness I seek family to raise is my wish peace to find I look for, just like you! I long I loathe I fear I hope I bleed I heal, just like you. I believe I doubt I accept I refuse I laugh I cry, just like you. We are alike we are the same we are brothers...children of a unique father! Tell me, my brother my friend my ally why do we have to oppose to fight to hurt to destroy and to eliminate one another? Are our seas really that narrow our oceans that small our lands so limited to contain all of us? or is it the case that our hearts are not big enough and our minds not so wide-open to enfold all of mankind? Listen to me, my other self; it is up to us to change this world we have inherited with its virtues and vices history and culture flaws and merits and try to make it better nobler kinder and more caring by: obliterating harmful beliefs demolishing injurious divisions destroying detrimental distrust annihilating racism and eradicating the erroneous feeling of poisonous superiority for to bring the dawn of a new loving world a world of acceptance of respect of justice of equality of love and of universal brotherhood thus with peace in our hearts liberated we would be from past’s deleterious tribulations that for myriads of years, have kept us, fighting one another! * © Demetrios Trifiatis 03 JUNE 2020 * Dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and to all those who have fallen victims of racism! R.I.P. for Justice would be served!