On The Marches Of Equality

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Pride is like a fight between women and blacks for civil rights. Both now seem to be a long-passed and irrelevant topic. But if you blow away the dust of illusory hope, it turns out that the themes are as everyday as air and daylight

Each of those who fought for their rights, more than once heard very convincing and succinct arguments not to go out and not come to terms with the situation. For example, "sit at home and enjoy the fact that you live", "do not impose your point of view, because we do not agree with it (read: we do not want to know about it)", "this is unnatural." It could well be said that a woman who has the right to vote hurts the feeling of believing men in her own superiority. The same could be said about the sense of superiority for all segregation laws. Once upon a time, suffragettes seemed, if not crazy, then at least strange. And the laws of Jim Crow were the opposite of the norm. Yes, society is changing in some way, but in some ways it remains ignorant. For example, in non-acceptance - otherwise.

Do you often see "satisfied" rallies? In which people go to talk into the microphone about high salaries, respectful attitude of the management to subordinates, affordable prices for communal apartments and that "our court is the most honest court in the world!" We say that everyone has the right to something there, but do we ourselves believe in this common truth? Or is the pride the case when my opinion is wrong?

Being different is never easy. It is often very scary. Because this otherness is fraught not only with moral trauma (which depreciate in our country more and more rapidly than currency), but often with physical violence. Everyone wants to have the right to be considered normal. Walking down the street without fear and not clenching your fists in anticipation of an attack. Calmly hug your loved one and not be afraid that for this you seem to be in the hospital with a concussion at best.

Nobody demands from redheads to hide freckles and dye their hair, because this offends the aesthetic taste of lovers of perhydrol blonde. Nobody demands this, because people with freckles were born, and did not look at their red-haired neighbor and implanted freckles in themselves. What is the difference? What is the non-accepting person really afraid of? That he himself will become red? Or that children will learn that there are other shades besides white and black hair?

Yes, if a child was teased for a red head of hair and freckles in childhood, he, of course, can pretend to be someone else by dyeing his hair blond and lightening his skin. And he can even believe that nature made him so. But the truth will still burst out like a stubborn sprout from under the asphalt..