Humanity

Humanity

“A human that treats another human inhumanely is no longer a human but a monster.”
            In history class, my class and I listen to our teacher briefly lecture about the times of segregation, fight for civil rights, and the oppression the colored people faced. Since the first time I learned of it to the time I comprehended it, my chest burned with bubbling distaste and disgust. I cannot understand how the white people and the government can be so harsh and disrespectful to colored people as they feel pain, anger, and happiness as they do. It brings so much fury and distraught against the human race as I am able to recognize the signs of those days still strongly present in the modern era. The sentence that I had discovered in a fan-fiction called “Detached Memories” by Detached stood out to me because it embodied the ring of truth that sung so high in my heart, that “a human that treats another human inhumanely is no longer a human but a monster.”   It wrapped up all the bundled thoughts and emotions I had in that one neat little sentence, and became the foundation as to why I fought against myself so often to keep an open mind and never judge a person’s character with just one glance.
            For several years now, I have become increasingly aware of the narrow- mindedness of human beings; we fear what we do not understand and react adversely: from avoidance to plain violent out breaks at the oddities. In the haze of the unknown, we have the tendency to think the worst of the unfamiliar. When faced with something we cannot fathom, we attempt to come up with the swiftest way to handle the unidentified or unusual, which is drive it out by force, avoid them like the plague, or label it inferior and strip any basic rights and dignity from it. We ignore the fact that apart from the differences or, as some calls it, abnormalities a person has, she or he is still a living, breathing and feeling human being. We either don’t realize or refuse to acknowledge...

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