What is a "human right"?
What reasons do we have for rising up?
What reason does the "state" have for rising up, to keep "order"?
The recent events in both Gaza and Ferguson has raised these questions in my mind and I'm sure in the minds of many others.
The idea that a group of people can be "sub-human", to deam a group or a species as "less than" an other group is to impose your ideas and judgement upon another person.
But the issue is that reality is created by the person, as in Gaza the politicians on both sides feel they are in the right. They use human life, both Israeli and Palestinian, as token to prove that they are right. But to what end? Will they know who is right when the both groups are dead?
In Ferguson it seems a perpetuation of Jim Crow. Keeping the view that of those with colored skin are not human, but animals. What are they trying to prove, that they are right? To what end? When it is a town of dead will then prove who is right?
When ideas based in unrealistic expectations are held so close that they very idea that there are black people on the streets, gays getting married, Palestinians on "holy" ground, could bring your reality crashing down down. When some one must force their ideas upon others, treating them as if they are figments of that person mind, acting as if they are god. They will cause more conflict, more death, and that will cause more, and more, and more.
When will we stoping thinking we are always right?
When will someone speaking up be seen as something good, and not meet with a bullet?
Stop trying to prove you are right, because you may be proven DEAD RIGHT.
*The track that helped to inspire this post.*
https://soundcloud.com/thomasjackmusic/the-final-speech-thomas-jack
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