Discrimination

It's amazing you see,how movies move me to tears and how they end up inspiring me.Ok not all movies but there are some movies that if you watch and at the end of it nothing in you has been moved,there must be something terribly wrong qith you.I mean it.I'm watching called PRIDE.It's about some black kids who loved swimming but well its during the segregation time and it is times like these that make me happy to be a Kenyan.I kid you not.The blacks had it tough back in the day.What,with being looked down upon and being treated like less of humans just because of color?Madness.The sad bit is that some people are still so backward that they still discriminate.Yes,I call it barbaric that in the 21st Century,you should look down upon someone because of color or tribe.It's just down right backward.Sue me if you may but its the truth.I mean,what does my physic have to be with who I am?My character?See,I didn't send an application specifying which color,or country or tribe I wanted to be born as or at.I just happened and found myself here.So why not judge me on the basis of something that I actually have control over?No,I wouldn't have beef with you if you hate me because I talk a lot.Not that I am going to change for you but if it came to a matter of life and death,oh I would shut it if it will maintain peace because you see,I can do something about it.It may be hard but I can actually shut it!But what do you expect me to do about my color?Go bleach myself or something?Ok,so if I have a problem with you because you are white?What exactly do Iexpect you to do?Develop a bleaching cosmetic that can actually turn you black?Seriously.

I have come to learn that human beings don't really know how to handle something that is different from them.We usually shun that which is different,not wanting anything much to do with it.We walk away,try to scare it away.I mean our defense mechanism is never alert as when we are dealing with something that is different.I don't really know where it originated and frankly,I don't care.What I care about is how we can change that and learn to embrace and celebrate our differences.Yes,that is what I would like to invest my time into.Preaching love for thy neighbor and in realizing that a neighbor is not that person living next to you.you neighbor is whoever is next to you wherever you are.In the bus,at school,in the streets.Every single human being is a neighbor and hence we owe it to humanity to love each other.

It hurts and its degrading.It is not cool at all.Stereo types are not,have not and never will be cool.And I realize trying to preach this to the world and changing the world's perspective could take eternity,so I will start with that which I actually can change.I will start with me.I will start with me reaching out to someone different from me and actually embracing.I will face my fears and move ahead to have a drink with someone who I somehow never imagined I could have a drink with it.I will start with me loving my neighbor for they are,just as they are.And I think that could go a long way.Let me not be caught hating someone just because they are different from me.

If you can pledge to making friends with that someone you always looked at and thought 'Him?nah'power to you.you will actually be reducing the chances of another war.I mean it.Let love guide your decisions and light you path.