Segregation

So we think we have solved this problem?

Don’t fool yourself.

Next time you have a barbecue, check out whom you invited. If you go into a meeting who do you sit with. Check your Facebook friend’s list.

The same is true for people who are of different religious beliefs or sexual preferences.

Does it make you uncomfortable?

Where do you live? Where do you children go to school? Who attends your religious congregation? Who do you vote for?

Not saying we are not trying. The oversight of the government is trying to force the diversities together. There have been popular changes in sports and music but what about our personal association?

I refer to my Tummy Temple. It has become integrated due to being one of the closest groceries on a bus line. There are still not as many people of color attending the shelves and those who are employed still view customers in silence.

Now and again a person in a burka or a dashiki will walk the aisles to the stares of others.

Legally people are allowed to attend but do we intermingle?

Not yet.

We still have a long way to go before we can truly accept each other than admire our gladiators. My generation will go to the grave with our bias but the next generation will become more accustomed to people of different beliefs and appearance and start learning their customs and habits and foods and music. Hopefully the generation after that and the generation after that will continue to integrate rather than build a wall.