Everyone should have the privileges i have,' he recites, his voice getting increasingly louder. 'In fact they should be rights instead. Everyone's story should be written, so all they have to do is get it read. Enough said.
No, not enough said. It is embarrassing that we still live in a world in which we judge another person's character by the size of their paycheck, the color of their skin, or the type of chromosomes they have.
It is embarrassing that we tell our kids that it is not their personality, but instead those same chromosomes that get to dictate what color clothes they wear and how short they must cut their hair. But most of all, it is embarrassing that we deny this. That we claim to live in an equal country, an equal world.