My question is, since we are all related, what makes us want to be so different...does a person's religion make us important? Does it make you who you are?
As I watched the PBS documentary on "Pilgrims", and the reason they wanted to leave Europe, it had a lot to do with being left alone to be whatever and whomever they wanted to be, an independence, and not be held down by religious restrictions. But their religion became a restriction to many when forced upon them.
Migration to a basically unknown part of the world took a great deal of courage, but it also put other unknown restrictions into play, life and death played out to a what was hoped to be a daily peaceful life.
Migration to a basically unknown part of the world took a great deal of courage, but it also put other unknown restrictions into play, life and death played out to a what was hoped to be a daily peaceful life.
More fighting ensued, in the process of wanting space and peace. What does this say about the Indians who were here in the US before the first European? Some were peaceful farmers, some where migratory, some were filled with hate and warred.
Whether the Indians liked it or not, the immigrants fought to take away this land to claim as their own.
Upon knowing your heritage, this "should" bring people closer together, to realizing we are not so different after all.
But fighting each other to gain importance, or to gain imagined freedoms, or to gain lands, or someone else's properties, is not a freedom at all, it's a restrictiveness with a cost put on lives...and does not bring us closer...it tears us apart and puts a price on your head.
...and Peace be to all who want it with love, unconditionally, without a price; not with hate that brings about an unfathomable cost.
http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2013/05/14/actress-vanessa-williams-explains-how-dna-powers-her-family-tree/?o_xid=73812&o_lid=73812&o_sch=External+Paid+Media
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