Where has the sunlight gone these days? In the past few decades, clouds have parted, but real sunlight has yet to be seen.
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What if time slowed down? What if people stopped discriminating? What if racism disappeared, consciousnesses around the world cleared of hatred and memory? What if we stopped hating?
What if we stopped, what if we stopped what we started?
What if hatred disappeared for even just a day- would that be the equivalent of a sun’s ray?
What if children didn’t have to fear going to school? What if people didn’t have to fear the world? What if religion stopped misguiding so many people? What if we stopped hating people because of their race? What if stereotypes stopped being used? What if those that stereotyped were stereotyped? How would their sentiment change? What if the world had been born without hatred? What if the world hadn’t had slavery? What if Jim Crow laws hadn’t been legislated? What if invisible racism wasn’t hidden in the offices of corporations? What if invisible racism was seen against a black and white screen? What if more prejudices were caught? What if less racism came out of the minority? What if less racism came out of the majority? What if it all froze, and was pushed away? What if those that hate could smile at those that don’t? What if those that hate had hearts? What if those that had hearts started to hate? What if the world was different?
What if we stopped, what if we stopped what we started?
What if hatred disappeared for even just a day- would that be the equivalent of a sun’s ray?
What if the truth wasn’t swept under the rug? What if racism stopped hiding, stopped hiding in places least expected? What if we thought of other people instead of ourselves? What if the oppressors put themselves in the shoes of those oppressed, and not in the shoes of the oppressor? What if the world changed, what if we changed what we started?
What if we stopped what we started?
What if hatred disappeared for even just a day- would that be the equivalent of a sun’s ray?
Rain, rain, go away…Let the sun come out!
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