Skeletons in Our Closet

When I think about the things that we've done in the past, whether the intentions were good or bad, it makes me wonder what our boundaries are. Where do we draw the line? What are we capable of?

I know we don't like to acknowledge the bad things we've done. I understand. I don't like to acknowledge it either. Why would we? We've done some pretty shameful things and yet when we do admit our mistakes and we look back at them and think "how could we do such a thing?", we still manage to lose ourselves and do it all over again. It's history repeating itself.

One of our biggest mistakes is the concept that a certain majority of us are somehow superior to a certain minority. Abraham Lincoln once said "All men are created equal". He didn't say that some men are created equal, he said all men. Of course, not everyone is going to agree with that. That's why the world is the way it is. That's why slavery exists.

Back in the Antebellum days, slavery was a common thing. It was a form of trade. A lot of us owned slaves, even the president. We taught our children how to be slave owners. We thought it was good for our economy. We couldn't imagine an economy without slavery. We thought it was a great idea to kidnap a race of us, ship them to our land and force them to work for us with no pay and whip them if they disobeyed. We even called them hateful names and showed no remorse if we killed a member of their family. It took us 250 years to realize our mistakes and put an end to slavery and that's just the United States. Slavery was still legal in some countries long after the American Civil War. Fortunately all nations today have abolished slavery. Although some of us in other countries still practice it.


Fast forward to The Holocaust, the largest genocide in history. It started when one us believed that their race was superior to another and that the only way to live peacefully was to wipe them off the face of the earth. We all know the long story of World War II and the Holocaust. The horrors that took place in Auschwitz . The millions of innocent lives lost for nothing. An evil dictator who brainwashed 2 millions us into believing that certain race of us were not worthy of life.

History repeated itself 30 years later with The Cambodian Genocide. Along with that came the ending of the Cold War, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Syria. There are many questions that could be asked as to what goes through our minds when we enslave or murder an entire race of us.

 Some of us have come a long way with our advances in modern technology. We try to make our lives easier. The technology we use changes all the time, but our moral compass' haven't changed a bit.