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Saturday, November 08, 2008

It’s what we really are....
Current mood: confused
Category: News and Politics
This afternoon when I was in the shower, I had a thought. Not a dirty one.

So with Proposition 8 being passed and all...I had to think what allowed this. How in the world would people feel the need to separate others? Especially with something like marriage. Even though I don't think I will be one to get married: the option is always nice to have.

Well I came up with my version of the answer. Minorities are self created. We as people, create them. The minute we say "He's black, he's gay, he's straight, she's short, she's fat, they're retarded, they're poor, she's rich, she's a prude, he's a slut"....we are pouring those words into the segregation we have created amongst us. We keep labeling people by all these "observations" that we make. We keep making people into all these other things than what they really are: People.

That's it. The minute we can stop pushing our self righteousness on people. Labeling them into smaller and smaller groups-so we can all feel superior. It's why we do it. Label people and degrade people, so that we can internally (for some of us really internally) feel better or feel superior. Because if we put all these labels on people, and we don't put labels on ourselves, then we feel better.

I don't think as a human race we can get past this. I mean, I believe we will be fighting for "minorities" forever. It was African Americans, Interracial marriage, now gay marriage. And as a society, we will keep suppressing other people's rights because it makes us feel more empowered.

We should just look at people and see them for what they REALLY are. People. That's it, and nothing else, just plain old people.