After all we all bleed Red

I wonder if anyone else does this. You know that little button in the left hand corner that says next blog...I click on it a whole lot. Today I discovered this sweet blog done by this American woman who adopted two Ethiopian girls. I checked it out and I was so moved. Here there is this lady who was willing to adopt two little girls who come from this completely different background and instead of ignoring it and slowly earasing their heritage she is embracing it.

How many of us can say that we are this open to a culture that is not our own. On that note how many of us have let culture, religion , nationality or race allow us forget that underneath it all we are just humans? The issue of division for these exact reasons has always been a concern of mine. Growing up in Germany as a bi-racial child I was soon made aware that I was different. I remember my parents always saying, you are yourself and you are no colour, you are a person. Of course at that age I wanted nothing more than simply make friends and for people to like me.

How ideal would it be for every person to simply embrace another regardless of their background or the colour of their skin but simply by virtue of them being a human just like themselves. I cannot for the life of me figure out how any person cannot appreciate that basically we are all the same. It is true we all have different ways of expressing ourselves culturally and spiritually but at the end of the day for most of us it is all towards the same end.

Why do so many people shut out things that are different? Is it so hard to see the beauty in this plathora of creative expression of basic human instinct. So many religions preach that theirs is the only way and those who do not follow are dammed. However, if some gave it a second thought instead of mouthing dogmatically what has been preached to them they would recognize how utterly rediculous that it (yes I SAID IT). How could it possibly be the intention on Jah, Allah or God (whatever you want to call this higher power that most of us recognize exisits) to leave out more than half the globe because they do not suscibe to what the other is saying if he or she created us all. If it is the argument of some that we were created in his own image and likeness, then how can so many be so presumptious that his own image is so one dimentional?

What is it that makes it so difficult for people to look beyond those layers and simply recognizing themseleves.

Think about it

xoxoSheba