What Will You Teach Your Children?

"If you take three glasses of water and put food coloring in them you have many different colors but it's still the same old water. Make the connection?" "Me, Myself and I" De La Soul

"Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong, my own beliefs are in my song"
"We got to live together, I am no better and neither are you, we are the same whatever we do" "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone

"The ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write."
"The world is black, the world is white, it turns by day and then by night, a child is black, a child is white, the whole world looks upon the sight, a beautiful sight" Black & White" Three Dog Night

"We all know that people are the same where ever you go, there is good and bad in everyone, we learn to live, learn to give each other what we need to survive, together alive" "Ebony and Ivory" Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

"You've got to be taught, before it's too late, before you are six or seven or eight, to hate all the people your relatives hate" "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" from "South Pacific" soundtrack, Rodgers and Hammerstein

"if you only have love for your own race, then you only leave space to discriminate, and to discriminate only generates hate and when you hate you are bound to get irate" "Where Is The Love" Black Eyed Peas

"There is just one moon, and one golden sun, and a smile means friendship to everyone" "It's A Small World" written by the Sherman Brothers for Disneyland after the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair

"don't worry about what shows from without, but the love that lives within" "Everything is Beautiful" Ray Stevens

"Let's get together and feel alright, hear the children crying, one love, hear the children crying, one heart" "One Love" Bob Marley

"There comes a time when we heed a certain call when the world must come together as one" "We are all part of God's great big family, and the truth is, love is all we need" "We Are The World" USA for Africa

This music video shows the way the world as it could be. Watch it. If you want to label yourselves playing world governments' and religions' "conquer and divide game", that is your business. When you place your label on me, as Johnny Cash would sing, "you're walking on the fighting side of me"; because, as Charlie Pride would sing, "I'm just me", a member of the human race. Labels come with preconceived notions and when you place them you do not see an individual, you see what your were carefully taught. The one thing I can say is true of all people of all cultures: here comes that tsunami wave, we all be running.

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Author Note: Listed song lyrics quoted in article by song title and recording artists who popularized the tunes except as noted. Article photo is from a t-shirt. The word "eracism" was coined in Los Angeles, California or New Orleans, Louisiana depending upon who does the telling. The t-shirt sleeve says "Stop The Hate" and the back says, "The greatest failure is not to try", copyright ~ eracism and purchased through "Enterprising Ideas", founder Greg Barnes. Insanity and the ready availabilty of nuclear weapons makes it imperative to stop the hate or our children will not have an earth to grow up upon.