To begin to find the resolution of any problem, you must start by recognizing and understanding that there is in fact a problem. The infamous step one of any get-help series. We as a human race have been battling a cancerous problem that has been eating at our global community since the beginning of time. This cancer is known as racism and it is one of the largest pandemics that our world has ever faced; claiming the lives of billions throughout time.
Unlike many other cancers and pandemics, you need nothing more than genuine goodness to defeat racism. Racism comes from humanity’s instinct to form tribes and communities. Long ago, before travel and civilized intelligence, we formed these tribes and villages based on our similarities out of comfort and security. As centuries pass, we continue to study civilization and psychology and as our world becomes more and more accessible, we now understand that this fear of others (or the unknown), is nothing more than ignorance.
Education is paramount in destroying this pandemic, but many who are educated still remain ignorant. It is important that we also shed this ancient instinct, or tradition if you will, that keeps us in small family units. We must understand that we all have similarities that go beyond our physical characteristics and religious beliefs and that there is only one race in this world and that is the human race. Once we can grasp this concept, many of our world’s most devastating problems will cease to exist.
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