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"We All Bleed the Same Colour"

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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.  - Martin Luther King Jr. Racism has to be one of the most disturbing topics to cover. As a black female in such an unforgiving world, it unnerves me to no end to know that such a hatred can arise because of the colour of your skin. Racism originated from the years of slavery, it was the way that the whites retained the psychological chains on the black community - which still remain until this day. "Racism is more than what is in the heart of an individual person at the moment of a particular act. Racism is the cumulative history of all those thoughts and acts. They add up to a pattern in which people of color are routinely and systematically treated differently than white people," expressed an article from TIME.  Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. -  Muhammad Ali ...

Embrace It

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The concept of religion is a rather sensitive matter. It holds immense power over many people, how they see the world and how they are seen by the world. Religion can separate or bring people together, especially when it comes down to morals and belief. Persons should not be divided based on their beliefs. "Scholars distinguish seven aspects of religious traditions: the doctrinal and philosophical, the mythic and narrative, the ethical and legal, the ritual and practical, the experiential and emotional, the social and organizational, and the material and artistic. (Smart 1996) Religious traditions differ along all these dimensions. These are the undisputed facts of religious diversity," stated the   Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that binds us to each other. - Hermann Bondi Religion should not be a rational reason to dislike someone, for we ourselves don't undoubtedly know if our very own religion is true; we have faith and so do others...