DISCRIMINATION FOR NONE; JUSTICE FOR ALL
Sometimes people pick and choose their equality. While some may express outrage about racial discrimination, they may shrug at inequality in marriage. Or some might decry unequal pay because of gender, ignoring the gaps in wages based on race and ethnicity.
Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of the people targeted or the means of discrimination. It’s a common misconception that you have to be a member of a group to react to unfairness, but you do not have to look like the group, act like the group, or live like the group to understand the harm that bias causes.
The reality is that we are all members of humanity. As humans, we are connected, whether we see it or not, whether we believe it or not.
Whether we like it or not.
We can only achieve true equality when one person’s hurt is everyone’s hurt, when injustice to someone who is not like you stings as sharply as a blow to your own gut. We must all see one another, recognize each other for our differences and embrace one another because of them, not in spite of them. When every one of us can do that, we will achieve real equality.