With the race riots in Ferguson again this week, the divide between black and white is once again evident in America.
Coming from big city life in America, like New York City and Washington D.C., I've grown up in divided neighborhoods and united organizations.
For example, just this morning, my daughter and I walking down Las Olas had to duck into an Illy's coffee shop when an impoverished (black) man in dirty clothes and talking loudly to himself turned around on the street and was coming up steadily behind us in a threatening way. Similarly, the day before, there was a (white) lady at the bus stop talking out loud, hallucinating, and thrashing...also scary in this otherwise posh neighborhood. In other words, these issues are race-agnostic!
Simultaneously, I go to synagogue where blacks and whites (as well as "black hatters" and the modern religious) sit and pray and socialize together, and go to work where many of my esteemed coworkers are African-Americans, and watch as one of my daughter's best friend in school and who she blabs with on the phone is a nice young man who happens to be black
Also, I remember last year I think it was having to move a heavy piece of furniture and one of my black neighbors went out of his way to help me get it upstairs--he was incredibly generous and he and many others where I live are friendly, neighborly, and we live side-by-side together.
We need to move from racial inequality to racial harmony!
We don't have to wait for an alien invasion to realize we are all human beings here on Earth and that we share more than not.
In Fort Lauderdale, by Florida Atlantic University, Nova Southeastern University, and Broward College, the actual intersections of the street are pained in multi-color.
I love it..not black and white, but the colors of the rainbow...mixed, flowing, getting along, and happy.
Let it be--black and white, yellow, brown, and red--a melting pot, together throughout the world in peace and prosperity.
No more rioting in Ferguson or elsewhere, but celebration of humanity--nothing more, nothing less. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)