We Are...

Published on August 27, 2004 By Gideon MacLeish In Current Events

We are...

black, white, hispanic, asian, native American, semitic, pacific islander, inuit...

we are...

Americans, Greeks, Jews, Italians, Samoans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, Haitians, Cubans, Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Ukranians, Lithuanians, Argentinians, Chileans, Brazilians, Peruvians, Panamanians, Jamaicans, Indonesians, Australians, Britains, Irish, Scots, French, Spaniards, Swiss, Dutch, Iraqi, Iranian, Turkish, Saudi, Palestinians, Egyptians, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Tasmanians, Indians, Pakistanis, Somalians, Kurds, Russians...

we are...

Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionalists, Tories, Whigs, Labor party, fascists...

we are...

gay, straight, bisexual...

we are...

men, women, boys, girls, transgendered, hermaphrodites...

we are...

Christians, Hindi, Buddhists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Muslims, Taoists, Shinto, pantheists, pagans, wiccans, atheists...

we are people...and we matter...

respectfully submitted,

Gideon MacLeish

Comments

SSG Geezer

on Aug 27, 2004

Thank you sir.

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 27, 2004

welcome.

The Crusaders

on Aug 27, 2004

Gideon,
Diversity is beautiful. But, I wish that we would not use our differences to separate ourselves.
Though, we have one thing in common .....we are all part of the human race. Unfortunately we forget this and concentrate more on what divides us......nationality, religion, culture, colour, beliefs....
Ah.....to be a united world......where everyone is your brother....sister....where every last soul matters......

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 27, 2004

Ah.....to be a united world

celebrating diversity isn't what keeps us from being united. In fact, there's even greater concern with the idea of creating a homogenous society without diversity...that starts to smack of the idea of "racial purity". Celebrating diversity is exactly what it says it is, with no further agenda.

Shovelheat

on Aug 27, 2004

John Lennon said it best:

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Spc Nobody Special

on Aug 27, 2004

Even Michael Moore?

Manopeace

on Aug 28, 2004

I love it Gideon! People like yourself give me the hope that one day there WILL be Peace on Earth!
Bless you!

M-Post

on Aug 28, 2004

Well damn, I read the post and my brain went balistic and I had so many great things to say.. but I was trumped by Shovelheat posting Lennon...

So I second what Lennon says!!

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 28, 2004

I love it Gideon! People like yourself give me the hope that one day there WILL be Peace on Earth!

Thanks, mano. I am doing what I can in my corner of the globe.

So I second what Lennon says!!

Yes, a very good song.

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