If you want to be treated like everyone else…

December 16, 2009

Stop trying to be so goddamn different! I wouldn’t want anyone else just like me (and there isn’t anyone else like me) so why in the world (hell) would you want to be just like anyone else? Equality is too abstract to fit into “just accept me as I am!”, as is the pairings of different cultural or religious backgrounds. For instance, my gal and I once attended Passover hosted by, of course, a Jewish couple that we’d known. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and we aren’t even Jewish! But, ask them to celebrate Christmas with us? Not likely… Get the point?

Growing up in a (very) small town as I did I never really had the monster’s head of racism or intolerance placed before my feet, perhaps because there weren’t enough “different” folks around to put down or beat on, but as I’ve grown into my adulthood and moved about the country (US) and traveled the world some I’ve begun to realize that racism and intolerance is altogether an entirely different beast with two faces that will most likely never be won over, though it is entirely OK to dream or hope that it will. Hope is a polite way of saying unlikely but slightly possible in the real world, especially concerning this. Hope is a big band-aide to place over the dream.

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