US(good)-THEM(bad)

I prefer Ali’s poem spoken at a Harvard commencement; the poem is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest poem ever written.

“Me, We”

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The comment above was originally a “response” to a “story” that appeared to combat a form of chauvinism with an equally unfortunate form of chauvinism. If one wants a world in which we are all treated as true equals, it hardly helps to divide people into Us/Them categories, with all the prejudicial connotations of that device. There is far too much finger-pointing and shaming going on today, and far too little effort at mutual understanding and cooperation.

Alas, my response was almost immediately ‘disappeared’. I’m not a big fan of censorship, so here it is again in a safer place.