Subgrouping

When presented with the opportunity

to change anything,

it becomes almost overwhelming.

The modern world is like a young child’s attempt

at making food for the first time.

While the intention is often good,

the product becomes muddled with mismatched ingredients

that tend to cause more opposing flavors and textures

than complimenting ones.

Complimenting one another.

Accepting one another.

Appreciating one another is something we rarely do anymore.

There was a time.

Long ago.

In an almost unrecognizable world,

where there were superiors and inferiors.

There were MINORITIES and there were

the rest of US.

Somewhere in the fight for justice,

at some point when posters at riots screamed words in bold

TO RECLAIM the very words that caused so many tears,

this dynamic of this nation altered.

It went from two groups

to

every

kind

of

subgroup

imaginable.

Instead of uniting a nation with full acceptance,

we broke apart

into cliques of gender

race

weight

sexual preferences

“disabilities”

location

and so many

others.

Instead of two groups fighting one another, we

have now

branched apart into so many groups

we believe who we are is

an identity,

which is solely connected to what subgroup we most relate to.

What if we were to unite the

Gays

Latinos

Blacks

Women

Lesbians

“Disabled”

. . .

Under one over arching group?

Still fighting for freedom and rights

of others because we are the others.

People would help other people due to

the recognition that it was another

human being in need.

The categories and titles of subgroups would be

useless.

We would fight together for a better world,

instead of a better world for the [insert subgroup here].

At the end of the day, we all dream the same.

We all close our eyes

drift off

to a world of either perfection or horror

and then wake up for another day.

And at the end of the day.

We are

all

just Humans