We live in an era of freedom. We are free to believe anything we want, we can do virtually anything we want. My generation was raised on the belief that we can become whatever we want and become whoever we want. If we shoot for the moon, we can reach Venus. This is an era of protesting and violence in order for people to achieve the outcomes they desire. When someone disagrees with something that happened -- something someone said to them, something that they saw on the news -- they claim they are offended and get enough people to support their opinion that change and not necessarily good change occurs. We are making each other miserable. We tear each other apart with our words for our own benefit and it needs to stop.
We are all created equal, every single person. Being a Christian I believe that God created everyone equally. Even without religion, people are all the same. We all carry the same structures of life. We all bleed the same color. When we become so focused on what we want, we forget what the people around us need. Everyone deserves equality, we should treat everyone as one race, the human race. We are all a part of one bigger picture. When we begin to label ourselves and others as feminists, racists, Muslims, Christians, Asians, blacks, whites, gays; when we stop seeing people as people and instead see people for a label that has been placed on them, we lose touch with humanity. When we label each other we stop seeing the humanity in others and lose essentially the essence of ourselves that we share with everyone, no matter the race, creed, color, sexual orientation or any other labeled box you could put someone in.
I believe in equality for all people. I believe we all share the same colors on the inside, the same DNA, we are.
