Madeline fills her family tree with Sojourner Truth, Amelia Earhart, and Nefertiti to point out that all humans are related. But if humans are 99.9 percent the same, why do we treat each other so differently?
I wish I knew the answer to that question. The world would be a better place if we could all just accept that most of our differences are just skin-deep.
It’s obvious that most people do not understand the" humanness " of those around us. It explains our need to compare and feel superior. It allows for racism, hatred, war. Humans have looked at others and not seen themselves.
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I wish people were kinder to each other. This world would be such a better place.
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Sometimes I think we forget to look at differences in an open manner and we really don’t spend time trying to understand them, or at least to respect them. Maybe we are afraid of differences. Not sure, but wish we could focus more, like Madeline, on how we are all related.
I just finished reading ‘What’s Real about Race: Untangeling Science, Genetics, and Society’ by Rene Bliss and highly recommend it. She gives the history of the social construct of race and when it was developed across hundreds of years. It was so well written and helped me to understand how it developed in many ways to justify holding other people as slaves while also saying you are a Christian. I don’t have the space to summarize all Ms Bliss writes about but I grew from reading her book.
I love that Madeline produced a family tree that included beautiful diversity. This says two things: 1. The innocent’s of children in regard to their acceptance and inclusion of all people. 2. The desire of Elizabeth to expose her child to a variety of people. Elizabeth expands the definition of family - this is important for our society.
People all over the world seem to have forgotten that truth. Things could be/should be so much better if everyone believed that we are all the same.