I haven't had much to say this week. My muse evaporated while looking through my blog stats at the Search Keywords used to find my blog. In a world populated by trolls, sock puppets, bullies and racists, what I found should not have surprised me, but it did.
"If God wanted us to be equal, he'd have made us all the same color."
Every time I sit down to write, no matter what I'm writing my mind suddenly turns to gift packaging. I start thinking about dog turds wrapped in tissue paper, placed in a box and then wrapped in pretty paper with a big bow. Still a dog turd no matter how attractive the package is, isn't it?
On the other hand, if I take two identically expensive diamond rings, wrap one in a pretty package, and place the other in a brown paper bag, am I destroying the equality of the two gifts? I don't think so. It isn't the outside of the package that creates the value, it's what's inside that counts.
In real life, the people I meet, the people I know, the people I love are like those diamond rings. Some of them come in the attractive packages, others in the brown paper bags. It's only when I'm online that I encounter the dog turds wrapped in pretty paper.
No matter what color we are on the outside, we're all the same on the inside. We all consist of bones, muscle, soft tissue organs, a heart that pumps blood. We all have a central nervous system and a brain that awesomely operates all the body functions that we don't have to think about, like breathing. It seems to me that the package it all comes in does very little to change how every thing else works. If that's not equality, what is?
Sherry:
ReplyDelete"If God wanted us to be equal, he'd have made us all the same color."
I hate it when people invoke the name of God to support their personal prejudices.
Whit,
ReplyDelete"I hate it when people invoke the name of God to support their personal prejudices."
I HEAR that. I'm also tempted to remind those people that given where Jesus was born, he'd more likely have physically resembled a bearded Barack Obama than he would have a bearded George W. Bush.
Actually, he might even have resembled Osama Bin Laden.
So much for equality...right?
Ignore these people and their prejudices and seek higher ground - get away from them and others like them that inhabit that swamp....
ReplyDeleteSarge
My thought on it is simply this: people are people. Like everything else, people come in two varieties-good and bad. I try to make my value judgments based on character rather than skin.
ReplyDeletePeace
If God wanted us all to be equal, he wouldn't have allowed the dog turds to float in the shallow end of the gene pool.
ReplyDeleteSarge,
ReplyDeleteThe bugger snuck into the back door when I wasn't looking and left that in my blog stats. Have no idea who it is so I can't get away from them. It bothers me that there are still people like this around.
Paul,
ReplyDeleteSadly, not all who judge based on skin color are fully bad people. It gets harder and harder to deal with folks sometimes.
Skinny,
ReplyDeleteIt takes all kinds to make a world, but I flat refuse to enter the pool when there's a dog turd floating in it.
I'm sorry - my mind is still stuck on the dog turds in the pretty paper.
ReplyDeleteICE,
ReplyDeleteYeah, mine is too. I just wish things like that didn't exist.
Hi Sherry....ignore the fool and move on, there are less of his kind and if you ignore them they all go away sooner or later to a place they can get a reaction. Let them know this is a NO REACTION ZONE....
ReplyDeleteTAB,
ReplyDeleteWhoever it was, they never spoke to me, just searched that phrase and wound up on my blog. In all the other silly stuff, like crappy cat and the new one about raindrops which I haven't disclosed yet, it just slapped me in the face. It took me a bit to get it out and I'm beginning to recover my muse.