Israeli-muslim tensions grown in the middle east each day. Western civilization is on the verge of nuclear warfare with North Korea. The world is no stranger to the chaos that envelops our world. The Nazi’s persecution and antisemitic wrong doings, the racial segregation of apartheid oppressing the people of South Africa, the religious crusades that consumed the known world in the medieval era. The Boston-Marathon bombings just this week injured around one hundred people. One hundred people hurt and injured because of the hatred and ill conceived ideas of just two men.
Bullying is but only a child of hatred. It escalates to such extremes that people are killed mercilessly. So much chaos and so much hatred have turned us into savages. What will we tell our children? How will we explain in the textbooks how we allowed such heinous crimes go unpunished in our society? From the schoolyard bullies to the suicidal terrorists, there lie an underlying level of dislike and prejudice. It’s because of the wrongdoing of an individual that so many suffer. The consequences punish not only the wrongdoer but those that surround him. The racial stereotypes and prejudice that exist prevent any of us from progressing. How can we expect to protect our families or protect our homes from the outside when we cannot even protect ourselves? We cannot stray from the confinements of our mind because of bigotry and stubbornness. The lack of love separates us from one another.
You see others fight and think you’re better than that. Think that you would never stoop to such levels. And yet, all of us eventually are no better than the religious zealots fighting in the Middle East or the North Koreans oppressing their people. We never realize what we are actually doing. Think back to how you’ve treated people and their initial reactions and how little you may have cared. We see public service announcements about being a better person it and does affect us but the message is only there for so long. Students attend a meaningful assembly such as Rachel’s Challenge and feel like their minds are opened. Unfortunately only three days later and they are back to the way they are, bullying, judging and hurting. We need to begin every change with ourselves.
Racial stereotypes become more and more offensive as you get older in school. The little myths you hear in kindergarten turn into full out scolding in high school. Strangers going around angering others and for what? To make their friends laugh? Because they don’t know your character well enough to make fun of your personality? To just get someone angry? When you make those judgments and jokes, what does that say about your character? What does it say about yourself?
Next time you feel fits of anger or the depths of depression, think of what you’ve given the world and what it’s given you. We stay away from problems others have and it is because of this that they continue. It is because of this we have been named the indifferent generation. It is because of this that there is so much hatred and depression in our world. We never stop to think of what tear us apart.
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