What does it take to speak out against injustice? Darnella Frazier proved last summer with a cellphone and her subsequent testimony this spring that you have to have courage. The definition of courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. Or it is strength in the face of pain or grief as cited by Google’s English dictionary. Throughout our collective history, as a country, there have been many people to display courage. But where Americans continue to fail is because of this made-up idea of race. I am a member animal kingdom and so are you. We are of the species Homo sapiens sapiens and we live on the surface of a spaceship called Earth. Our species prevailed, where other bipedal hominins became extinct. That is our collective past. We are the same people. Our collective presence has shown us that this designation of superiority based on a chemical reaction in our skin that is meant to protect us from the dangers of the sun and to allow the synthesis of vitamin d is ignorant at best. I often wonder how many great minds have our species Homo sapiens sapiens destroyed, killed, subjugated because of this misguided belief in superiority. Where could our collective presence be at this very moment? The warning comes because if we do not look at ourselves and understand that we are smarter, stronger, and wiser because of our diversity, but not our diversity in something a trivia as the color of skin. Then our collective future is doomed. There has always been one group of people that thought that they were superior to another group of people because of religion, philosophy of life, wealth, or whatever in the hell made you different from them. As our world became much smaller in the middle 1400s, skin color has grown out as the latest iteration of this backward ass complex. Can we ever outgrow this foolish way of thinking? Be courageous and speak out.

Music produced and arranged by P. Green

Support the show