Passivity’s Time Has Expired

I do not know how it feels to be a second-rate citizen by law, growing up in a liberal and progressive country, but I do know how it feels to be considered second-rate and to be treated like you are worth nothing.

It still amazes me that evolved and cultured people in this day and age can look at someone who is unlike themselves and proclaim that person to be less of a human being. Especially those who cling on to “morals” and “family values.” Is it not the ultimate moral thing to help, respect and love your fellow man, a member of the extended family of human beings, regardless of gender, sexual preference, ethnicity and/or religious preference?

Why is it that in the twenty-first century people are still discriminated against, when we have all this wicked history to fall back on in our considerations? Have some learned nothing from the past?

I hope that we someday can all look back at this time as world-changing—a time in which true equality was achieved. However, the roadblocks ahead of us first need to be bulldozed before we can get to a peaceful and equal future. And with dreams and hope alone that will never happen. Passivity’s time has expired and only through social and political actions, militant if necessary, can we eradicate the poisonous brume and finally get to a clear and unclouded existence.