The Simplicity of Equality
Once you see someone as human, you can never unsee their humanity
This publication, Our Human Family, is inspired by the reality that despite the bigotry, hate speech, and acts of violence perpetrated in this country, there are plenty of people working to make the world — their world, their sphere of influence — more equitable by dispelling the lie of race and the practice of racism, and replacing them with the truth of love and equality.
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown and pink and beige and purple,
tan and blue and white.I’ve sailed upon the seven seas
and stopped in every land,
I’ve seen the wonders of the world
not yet one common man.I know ten thousand…
