Reconnecting with our humanness, or just plain cruelty

The other day I was outside with a group of people coincidently all males, we were enthralled in a game of T.A.P.S. Then I spotted a rather large green moth perched on a brick wall about 10 feet of the ground. I pointed to the interesting creature and told others to look. Instantly the expressions changed on their faces, they began to run around looking for rocks and sticks. They then began to chant "Kill it!", "Knock it down!","Get a rock, quick!". They all began jumping up to hit it, slapping sticks at it and throwing rocks at this poor moth. There were fists in the air, people yelling: and when a stone finally struck the moth, they chanted, clapped, and disturbingly celebrated. This really made me think, why did they do this? Why did they kill this defenseless animal in vain? Its not like there were young kids amongst the group, many of them over 16. This made me think about our race, the human race. We started out as nomadic hunter gatherers, then as time went on we became more civilized and our world slowly evolved into what it is today. Was this slaugter of the moth, a group of males reconnecting with their humanness? Bear in mind we didnt get together and have a talk about human civilization and say we were going to go hunt something. This all happened hap-hazardly, they all saw the moth and had the same idea, the same motive and the same goal, it came so natural to them. Was it a struggle to be the alpha-male, was it a struggle to see who could kill it first? Me personally, I was on the moth's side, encouraging others to simply "let it be" but they had this rage to them, this urge to kill the poor thing. As disturbing as this may seam, it is also so natural when you think about it. I believe this hunting down was our instincts, our humanness permeating their 21st century minds and allowing them to reconnect with what ours did when we didnt have all this modern technology.

Society may condemn things, and suppress them: but we must embrace our humanness for all its beauty and all of its not so beautiful qualities. We need to listen to what our minds and bodies are telling us, rather then society. Im not saying whenever you see and animal, kill it and after raise your fists in celebration. But try to reconize your humanness, and embrace it. Be yourself, its all you can do, we are human. Ours is a gift, we should be proud of who we are. We should be proud that we can sweat, bleed, cry, be attracted to another and all the other amazing things we do. We must remember that although we are so significant and advanced we are still living, breathing things that walk this earth. We aren't that different from the other creatures that walk this earth, we must compare ourselves to them, perhaps there is something we can learn from these simpler creatures. We need to embrace and accept our imperfections and differences, because we are nothing without them. We are gifts, we are incredible creatures worthy of such praise. The things we do, our natural instincts are beautiful so don't supress them, accept them. When there is an unpleasant odor, embrace it because you can smell. When there is bad music on the radio, listen because you can. When you are served a dish you don't favor, eat it because you can taste, and not only that you can enjoy and not enjoy. Form your opinions, because your are smart enough to be able to think about such things. Consider yourself a gift, a gift to everything: this earth and beyond. Ours is worthy of praise, study ours, examine us, perhaps you can find something about the race in which you are a member that you can look at and say "Wow, we do that, we are able to do that.".

Racism I encounter

I have friends from all walks of life, their race means nothing to me. But I realize amongst my peers there is a lot of racial animosity, particularly my caucasian friends. Here is just a little sample of the racism I encounter amongst friends and aquaintances regularly.

"He started smoking Nigger-ports" Here this person is refering to Newport cigarettes which are notorious for being strong menthol cigarettes.

Just to set the plot, I was walking late at night with a friend when we saw a drunk driver hit a parked car, my friend responded: "God damn yan-yos". Yan-yo is a racial term used to label Latino immigrants.

"Its getting harder and harder to be an American in America, no one speaks your language, the ones that do are fucking niggers. I feel Im the immigrant, in a way Iam, Im the minority here: out numbered by the rest of them." I work with the person that said this, he is in no way, shape or form my friend.(for the record).

-Can I borrow a dollar?
-Sorry I dont have enough
-Stop being a jew and loan me a dollar

This was a conversation I saw between two people when I was getting some lunch the other day. The man who asked for a dollar later recieved it after his use of a racial analogy.

Why does all this racial animosity engulf America the way it does? It goes deeper than just racial slurs, people are seperating themselves by race, is it because they feel more comfortable amongst their own race? Why can't they be at ease in the prescence of people that are different from them? And my final question, although it is already becoming one of those irritating cliches we all kno and hate "Why can't just get along?".