We live in a freak nation. We thrive on individualism, yet at heart, so many of us want us all to be the same. It is so easy to stereotype someone by race or economic status we take for granted who we are. That is why it is so funny that many of us cannot get past what makes us different. Not even the President of the United States.
Then this should be no surprise because we as a people have been doing this for hundreds of years to one another. We treat each other as if they were the scum of the earth because they do not believe what we believe. What is even worse is that we do it out of fear. It is the fear of the unknown, which scares us. It should be that fear that makes us that much more curious to find out about one another, and accept each other's differences.
Destroying them or making fun of them will not make them go away. Differences are like ideas and just because one is destroyed in, some faction does not make them go away. Destroying a race will not make it go away because the ideas are all still there. All that was, of each and every one of us will live on. It can also make the idea that much stronger.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy made his ideas that much more stronger and made his words mean that much more to us. We are all neighbors and we each deserve each other's respect, even if we do not believe in the same things. Without that as a people, we are nothing.
