It is now the third day of my 30 Days of Blogging Challenge. Previously I announced using prompts to build a foundation. Today’s prompt is from the non-fiction suggestions. I am to write about discovering morals.
What are my morals?
Merriam-Webster defines morals as:
Definition of moral
Where do your morals come from?
They come from being treated like a commodity. I live in a world where people with my skin colour were seen as non-Humans. As much as society likes to claim progress has been made socially; it is not so. There are descendants of slaveowners and overseers trying establish overt indignity of my existence. The presence of people with my skin colour is proof of an unpunished crime. The dominant society is attempting to acknowledge this wrong. However, there exist others who wish to deny my reality.
I know this reaction is a shame. Denial is used to preserve one’s ego. I am not judging, I accept the reality for which I live. There are those invested in ignoring the atrocities committed in the name of ‘civilization’. If I am to live in society, I must accept that our times are built on unpunished genocide and I am powerless to stop it. I believe this is another reason why I keep to myself.
I guess I want to live in a way in which I do not have to harm people, and in return, I myself am not harmed.
If you liked this story please subscribe to Conditional Humanity.