Fix every problem BLM & others have identified, sort all white v black bias etc and what follows will surprise many: rich blacks v poor blacks, rich whites v poor whites (not new), blondes v brunettes, freckled v non-freckled…..

Unarguably it is necessary to fix a lot of the issues being flagged up; be it racism, other forms of bias & intolerance or distribution of wealth and opportunities etc. But, you only have to spend 10 minutes driving on our roads, to see the hopelessness of humanity. One reckless driver decides he or she is late for an appointment and off they go…. surely, others may wish to get home or to work too?

You look at LINKEDIN, the professional networking site set-up for people to discuss jobs, work opportunities etc. it is now cluttered with posts on weddings, wedding anniversaries etc., and each time one of those posts come up, the person uploading the posts starts with: “I don’t usually upload personal stuff….”, surely, the minute you type those opening words, you would resist the temptation to upload those wedding pictures on LINKEDIN and head off to FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER and tens of other sites made specifically for such posts? But oh no, they believe they love their wives better than others or their personal stories are worth sharing more than others. Imagine if everyone on LINKEDIN decide to upload just 1 x personal story? with the same selfish attitude, it will take hours of scrolling before one can get to a job advert or work-related post that the site was specifically created for. That, in a nutshell is the human failing… Simplistic analogy, but it does represent rather accurately, why society is in such dire straits

Look at Liberia. Look at Sierra Leone. Someone thought it was a splendid idea to go and resettle freed slaves in Africa. Now, they are divided by accents after a couple of generations since. The American-sounding descendants of slaves versus the indigenous folks. Look at Haiti and other places, with light-skinned blacks versus darker blacks. Today I read a newspaper article by Fast & Furious actor Tyrese Gibson saying he was passed over for several Hollywood roles as Terence Howard, a lighter-skinned black chap being the preferred black. Ha ha. Perhaps not funny, but one really must laugh. Tyrese added that this was the same experience he had growing up in the hood. Ok. But surely, he may or may not have heard of several actresses dying their hair blonde over the years right!? And just look at the roles Anthony Quinn played: a basque, Mexican outlaw, Greek soldier etc. he was stereotyped for decades, same for Yul Bryner and they got on with it, made the best of it. I am not for a moment saying it is right, but these pampered, entitled actors and actresses of today, like Tyrese, after $millions (while nurses work tirelessly on low wages as they save lives), will still continue to moan about the disadvantages they supposedly face for being black! What a joke!

You can solve every form of -ISM out there and there will still be bias and preferences. Making sure there are processes that are not systemically put in place, to disadvantage one type of human against the other, sorting some of the needless violence etc., is where society needs to focus, but we are currently distracted by silliness . No race is made-up of saints; we’re all as bad as each other! given the opportunity, I doubt many would perform differently to what’s been seen so far in human history . You only have to travel across Africa, Asia and other parts of the world, to see that racism and bias is not the sole preserve of white on black/brown/others engagement.

The world is messed up because human beings are messed up and those that get it, largely tend to stay out of it and as such, it goes on and on…..