DIVERSITY

I am trying to imagine a world with only vanilla ice cream, don’t get me wrong, I love vanilla ice cream but it would be such a shame to have never experience the flavors available to us now. Unfortunately there are people in our country who only want vanilla ice cream, no chocolate, no raspberry and heaven forbid if we mix some flavors. I don’t understand the fear that the colors of the “rainbow” present to some individuals, if you only like vanilla, fine, but why impose your tastes and beliefs on others.

There seems to be a growing faction of fear in our country to let people who are different live their lives in peace. I have always found diversity exciting and rewarding, exciting to meet someone different than me, to learn about our differences and the things we have in common. Rewarding because I find we are all not as different as we first believe. We all love and laugh, we all cry at loss and disappointment and we all just want to live our lives in peace.

Diversity is an opportunity to open our eyes and really see the world around you, not live in our little corner of it in fear and hate because of it. To experience new customs, new foods, a new language, and so much more. But there are those who are threatened by the diversity, who only want the vanilla ice cream and I feel sorry for them. But not sorry enough to let them control me or my ability to experience the wonders of this world.

This is something we should all begin to open up our eyes and mouths and speak up against because it sure seems like they have had their time at the podium to long and it’s time for someone else to get a word in. Our country was built on diversity and I can’t think of one that wasn’t but the fanatics in our world want us to close our minds and our doors to anything that doesn’t walk and talk and look like they do.

It’s time to take our stand and let the world know that they to not speak for everyone, in fact they don’t speak for a majority of the people. That they are the different ones, they are the ones who lack the compassion and understanding that god represents. It’s time to stand up and be noticed for our diversity and not let them drag us down to their level of bigotry and expect us to take it any longer.

I think they are afraid to really look at the diversity around them, afraid to get to know the difference because to do that they must first look inside themselves, and deep down inside they really don’t like what they see.

As long as you are willing to accept your own difference, that you are not perfect, why should you not be willing to let others live their lives and accept them for what and who they are.

I think people who hate diversity are like the ostrich, when you look at them their heads are in the sand and all you see is an ass.

That’s all for now...until next time