Prejudice

Prejudice is all around us.  Unfortunately that is a fact of life that just has not gone away yet, and probably will not for a long time to come.  I truly believe this hatred towards another person based on something like the way they look, or where they go to church, or who they fall in love with is about the worst thing on Earth.  To me, I feel this behavior is taught through the generations.  Children are not born discriminatory. They pick up the lessons of hate and ignorance from those around them.  In the Twilight Zone episode, “Eye of the Beholder,” America has made an attempt to end this prejudice in the future.  Their attempt failed.  Instead of having a nation united, they simply flipped the switch.  Everyone who is deemed pretty in our current view, is now considered a blight to society and must be contained as if they were a whole separate species.  I wish I could say that true equality is coming, but the harsh reality is that there will always be at least one group of people who are prejudiced against for something or other.  Jealousy, ignorance, and fear the basis behind prejudice, are a part of the human condition, and these emotions are not going away overnight.