“All Stories Matter.”

 

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It is sad that we have to still push the idea that people are of equal value. That one life does not and cannot matter more than another. It is a hard thing to comprehend but you cannot live in ignorance of the world you live in. If you are going to be a relentless do-gooder or a person of faith, or some sort of light in the world, then you must be well aware of the dark.

 

A person of colour in the western world, is more aware of these racial differences than those of us born on the African continent. We know it in tribes, and they know it more in race. Both offer the same unhelpful delusion: there is something inherent that makes one-person superior to the other, from made up language and culture, because all culture and all language is basically made up to carry group values, to the way your pigmentation works out. It is sad but true.

 

The best wat to look at it lies in the idea that all stories matter. We ought to listen to each other and learn where the other comes from. We cannot erase thousands of years of cultural mishaps and racial crimes. What we can do is acknowledge that there is nuance in the world, no human being is the bastion of good or the epoch of evil. We are started in our prejudices and preferences, but we do not have to die there. We can listen to each other. And learn other stories.