We seem to feel entitled to walk around and judge people we have never met. We feel the need to need to label each other, which leads to assumptions. We assume so we feel better about our behavior and so that our opinions seem more like facts that validated in our brains.

You can not walk around labeling others so you feel better about yourself. That is not how it works and that is exactly what we should not be doing. Assuming what someone is or what they belong to, is like stealing someone's identity and refusing to understand who they truly are. Refusing to give someone back their right to prove themselves for what they are.

This goes for race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, economic status, and pretty much anything that makes up a person. If you want to believe someone is rude because of their actions, you have support to back that up by experience. You don't have support to back up the belief that someone is Christian, just because they walked past you and said, "thank God."

The world is at a place right now where certain people trigger emotions to others. People that have done no harm, are being targeted because of the way they look. Why do we continue this hatred by assuming what others are — as if we had the right to? Why should someone play "guess the race," with me, when they do not know anything about me?

Assumptions are what continue the hatred in the world we live in. The assumption that just because one is Muslim, they are against us and here to create terror. The assumption that a black male is more harmful than a white male. The assumption that a Hispanic man is a criminal just because he is Hispanic. These assumptions are what harm us and our behavior towards others.

So stop assuming what others are. Give others the chance to show and tell you who they are. If you are going to avoid someone so you feel safer, then avoid everyone at first. You never know who is truly out to harm others. You could be running towards danger instead of safety all because of the way someone looks.