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Crow Eagle Talks

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Here, there, everywhere…

What might that be? DISCRIMINATION!

When I was young, I felt DISCRIMINATION.

Same language, but different religion yielded DISCRIMINATION.

Later, same religion, but different language yielded DISCRIMINATION.

Then I heard about members of one religious group who were not able to find overnight accommodation at some motels or hotels; for them, there were never any rooms available. As to being able to join particular clubs, for them there were no ways to join, yielding DISCRIMINATION.

Today, based on colour, culture, language and religion, we still have many forms of DISCRIMINATION.

If one has all four bases, DISCRIMINATION can overpowering, in fact, to be different based on any of those four bases can lead to DISCRIMINATION.

Where can DISCRIMINATION be found? Here, there and everywhere; the list can be long. One primary area where DISCRIMINATION can be found is in the world of work where selections for employment and later for promotion opportunities exist.

Sometimes DISCRIMINATION can be very subtle and very hard to prove. Sometimes it can be fought and even if the case is won, the perpetrator most often remains in power or control and in more subtle ways, DISCRIMINATION continues.

All DISCRIMINATION is hurtful, and is always remembered. Those who have felt DISCRIMINATION will tell stories which are always the same when it comes to pain and suffering.

Even in our world of today, we see massive, extensive and most terrible forms of DISCRIMINATION in genocide and in racial cleansing.

Will DISCRIMINATION ever end? I doubt it very much!

It behooves those of us who are opposed to DISCRIMINATION, to do all that is in our power to do the right things to eliminate it, in every way possible.

In the name of justice, ethics and morality, we must stand up to DISCRIMINATION, wherever and whenever it rears its ugly head.

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