The Ambulance Is On Its Way

We all heard the siren while on the road that day. We all immediately slowed down…pulled off the road there was an ambulance on the way. And I thought to myself: it isn’t likely the person hurt… is any one we knew but how wonderful everyone instinctively allowed the ambulance to go through. We had no way of knowing if the person hurt was black or white, if they were a muslim, a jew or gay. We only knew someone was in trouble and there was an ambulance on the way. And I wondered: if we knew the person hurt was black or white, if we knew they were gay a muslim, or a jew would that have changed the way some of us reacted… would we have still allowed the ambulance through? And it made me long for a world where we don’t care if a person is black or white, where we don’t care if they are a muslim, a jew or gay A world where we treated everyone as if the ambulance was on its way.