Kyle+Schuller

I Believe In… I believe in everyone being equal. Through history, people have claimed to be better than one another. With this arrogance, many treated others unfairly. The people that were seen as lower got their statuses by being them. For example, they were persecuted because of their race, religion, thoughts, actions, etc. This persecution could be as minor as not being allowed to participate in certain events or it could be as big as the mass slaughtering of six million people in a holocaust. I have seen people that are mistreated because they are them, and I believe that humans, as a whole, should come together and see everyone as their own brothers and sisters.

I grew up in Grand Rapids. Soccer was, by far, my favorite hobby. I played all year round in different settings and clubs. One day, during practice, a journalist took my team’s picture. Later that week my parents found me in a newspaper article. I distinctively remember this newspaper not only because I was in it but also because the picture on the front of paper was of a black man who was bleeding from where his ear use to be. I remember always being afraid of this picture. A few years later I found that newspaper and I decided to read that article. It was of a man that had been severely beaten by white men. It was described as a race crime. The men that had unleashed on him caused him the loss of one of his ears and his hearing.

It is incredible to think that everything the United States has been through has not solved all of its problems. Thirty years after America’s desegregation is still not enough time to resolve man’s hate for each other. It is unreal that man can hate their neighbor enough to beat them into a crippling state.

I believe this world has had enough hate. I wish for humans to realize that they are not separated from each other but are unique for being who they are. And that they might one day come together and learn that no one is less worthy than another that we are all here together.