Human Relationship

Human Relationship

HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS Mother Nature created human beings with different ethnic groups and cultures which are all related to each other by human relationships. Those relations have been changed a lot from ideal to practice, from Dark Age to present day. From 15thcentury, when Columbus found America, people from around the world have kept moving in and set different kinds of relations. It started with colonialism first, then slavery, discrimination, and absolute freedom. Fortunately, it has become better because people keep doing everything to protect their human rights. After the revolution, wiping off colonialism, everyone had basic human rights, but not black people. Slavery and discrimination were known as other human relationships, beside colonialism. The worst relation ever probably is slavery in which black people were treated like subhuman. It appeared around time European moved to America. Big wild fields, good soil, but lack of labor, white people imported Africans more and more for doing hand jobs for them. All Africans were “steal away to Jesus”, and “steal away home” (Spirituals) by European colonialists, and then came to a new world without freedom, without anything good. ” Sometimes I fell like a motherless child, A long ways from home,” “You shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.” Still I Rise- Maya Angelou In the big wild field, either men or women “went to work at sunrise and did not stop until dark” (All God’s chillen had wing) whether or not they were sick, couldn’t do their jobs. “There was no pause for rest during the unendurable heat of the midsummer noon, though trees were plenty and near.” Even a young woman gave a birth, “had not fully recovered from bearing,” still had to work with her child on back. Inhumanly, the slave-owner knew she was very weak, couldn’t stand on her feet, stumbled, slipped and fell couple times, but he “struck her with...

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