We deserve better. Our Humanity Demands It.

We have not lost our humanity; we have merely abandoned it.

We have forgotten that we are all one.

We have cast aside our morals and taken the low road in pursuit of selfish attempts to feed our ego and justify our hatefulness.

 We have placed ourselves above others in a vain attempt to hide our own self-loathing, and in doing so, reveal our own weakness. We watch and do nothing as children are ripped from their families, and in our self-righteous piousness we say they deserve it because they broke a law while crossing an imaginary, meaningless border. 

 We condemn the “other” because it is easier to disagree and speak ill than it is to bake a cake, or take a knee. 

We bow to a false god called patriotism, nationalism, or religion; yet we neglect the fatherless, the widowed, the hurting, and the forsaken. We turn a blind eye toward the violence that has been perpetrated against whole classes of peoples and communities in our society. Our guns have become more important than our humanity; we have lost our way, and in doing so, we have abandoned our soul's purpose.

There is a reckoning that must happen; an awakening from the moral darkness within each of us that allows this to happen in our 21st century society. We must heed the call from within to recognize the moral failures of what had been our values; or we must completely disavow the claims of justice, piety and righteousness that we speak out of one side of our mouths while our hands pay favor to the oppressors, making us wholly part of our nation’s failures. 

We deserve better. Our children deserve better. Our nation deserves better. Our humanity demands it.