Life is fundamental

Life is fundamental

Has anyone else grown weary of the much too often quoted phrase "Black Lives Matter"?

Why should black lives matter more than white lives or yellow or olive-skinned lives?

And why are we suddenly relegated to simply being "lives"?

We are all people--human beings--and as such we all have distinctive personalities and characteristics that define us as individuals.

According to our venerated Declaration of Independence, we are all created equal. Yet there is a certain element abounding within the boundaries of our own country that strives to make one group more important than another.

It defies every concept upon which the very foundation of our nation was created.

All lives matter regardless of color of skin, level of education and occupation.

Targeting an individual because of a difference in appearance or personality or job or even in regard to the clothes or uniform worn is wrong.

Pure and Simple.

It is not for us to arbitrarily take away a life.

Life is a fundamental, God given right.

We cannot walk upon the streets or enter stores or theaters or shopping malls or gas stations and decide, off the top of our heads, to kill someone because we don't like the look of another person.

If these thoughts or actions were allowed to become reality, what kind of world would we have to live in?

It's time we stopped glorifying one type of people above another and give all people a healthy respect of their lives.

We are not here to get in each other's way.

We are here to strive and grow and to continue to regenerate ourselves on through the next and next generation.

Stirring up racial tensions is not helping us to achieve any of these requirements.

It's creating a sensation for violence and hindering the essential well being of all people.