Musings With Olulana: All Of Us Are Born Beautiful

 

All of us are born beautiful and I truly belive that. It does not matter how different babies look, as long as they are not hungry, cold, wet, too tired, lonely or sick they will respond to their care givers with smiles and laughter… a show of love! As they grow older they express that even more and extend it to other people they get used to.

 

All babies are lovely regardless of their race or any physical deformity they are born with. What determines how they turn out usually is the atmosphere in which they are nurtured. When they are loved and treated like they should be, those babies generally develop into people that are a blessing to their community.

 

When people start to treat others badly because they are different from them in some way, they are only saying that another human being is not as good as they are. Unfortunately, they are on the same path that led to slavery and most likely only the norms of our current society prevents them from actively carrying out that depraved practice!

 

One big reason someone will enslave another person is because they feel that person is beneath their 'humanity'. Do people enslave their own children? Unfortunately the answer to that question is, maybe. Deviant minds have done that but they try to hide it from the society they live in. They know it is not right! When slavery in whatever form is practiced openly, the slave master believes the slave is a lower form of life.

 

Pimps who manage prostitutes are slave masters. So are employers that lock up their low wage employees in factories to ensure they work all night. People that use child labor are slave masters as are those who misuse their nannies and employees hired to help in the house. In some parts of the world, those employees are called 'houseboys' and 'housegirls' and often are horribly treated. People who pay illegal immigrants wages they can not live on are slave masters. What is the common thread here? All slave masters are exploiting another human being!

 

Each one of these people who are being treated in subhuman ways is someone's child. They were once babies. Lovely, beautiful babies. Are they the abnormal ones? Who really is different here?

 

The normal thing is to love everyone. Little children do this naturally in pre-school. Watch them play with each other if you can and you will see that the prejudices you and I may have do not factor at all. That is normal. The way it should be. The Asian child hugs an African child and the European child joins them laughing. Black or white, it does not matter! Those who are 'yellow' and all colors in between can join in. At our basic level, we are all the same. Our body parts are interchangeable.

 

If the parents are there at the pre-school and you observe them you may notice disapproval in some faces. Back home, lessons in prejudice will start to be taught and soon those lovely children will begin to see the differences between themselves as a barrier and feel they are superior. It does not matter which race. It even happens within races… within tribes and even between families. How sad.

 

So think about it. You are the abnormal one if you treat someone badly because they are different from you. Those little children started out right. You, the parent, sibling, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin or friend corrupted them as you were corrupted yourself!

 

That person you are mistreating was born… beautiful.