Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts
Simply whatever comes to mind. Probably about St. Helena but not always . . .

Thursday 9 November 2017

Those who do not study history are apt to repeat its mistakes


300 years ago white people believed black people were inferior and not worthy of the same rights.

This changed.

100 years ago right-handed people believed left-handed people were inferior, and left-handers were forced to write right-handed (my grandmother was one of them).

This too changed.

Today many heterosexual people believe homosexual people are inferior and should not be allowed the same right, including the right to marry. Some of these people are themselves black and/or left-handed. Can they not see that their prejudices are no more meaningful than the ones to which they themselves would have been subjected, centuries ago?

It is time to end ALL forms of discrimination.