Poverty Lessons Part VI
Editorial,
by Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi
Welcome to our poverty series, we are getting close to completing our series with one more edition next week then we will be moving toward a new topic Human and Artificial Intelligence.
I believe it is essential to meet people where they are. See people where they are and acknowledge the pain, suffering, and hunger the same way we acknowledge joy, wealth, and abundance. Poverty can be severe when people have no housing, no food to eat, no shelter, and in dire desperation. Poverty can also mean if someone is poor as a human being their mind, thoughts, and actions are poor. When people think of none other than themselves, I would call that poverty as well.
Enjoy the upcoming lesson from our great writer and storyteller Annelise Lords.
Poverty Lessons Part VI
by Annelise Lords
“You think we think of you that much?” Vanessa asks.
“Well, many are bleaching their skin to get lighter complexion. Wearing hair like ours in the color and length,” she boasts. “Others are even wearing colored contact lenses to change their eye color.”
“And some in your race are getting tan for better complexion thinking that it will increase melanin, preventing wrinkles. Others are injecting Botox for fuller lips, plus getting a butt lift for a bigger butt,” Vanessa sends back.
“So, what are you saying?”
“I am saying that our creator made each of us different and unique. No human was made perfect. Each of us lacks something that the other has. He did that to encourage unity and love. He wants us to share, communicate, help each other, and live in harmony. But your race believes that only one race should exist. If man came from dust, no dust is white in color!”
“Are you saying we can’t continue to survive without your race?”
Vanessa stared at her reading her emotions, and said laughing, “You really believe that you can? You know nothing about your history.”
“I know enough,” she said.
“No, you don’t,” Vanessa informs. “If you did you would know that your race, needs my race to succeed. And vice versa. No matter the race, each human contributes something positive to humanity that aids in the survival of all races. And history has vindicated my race from a higher level of destruction yours have added to our world,” Vanessa pushed in as she fumed and her face turned red.
Then she said, “I am 21, I haven’t done anything to harm any race,” she defends.
“What do you think your racist thinking, actions, choices, decisions, rules and laws are? Water that will quench our thirst? Go back into history, and see which race has done the most damage to this planet, our world, and other races. Your race has billions of dollars in art hidden in museums all over Europe that was stolen from Africa that they refuse to return to us. You see, history and poverty have vindicated my race from the cruelty of humanity. Written by historians of your race! Why the hell shouldn’t I be proud to be black!”
These words held her in a chokehold, but the thought of losing to a black person prevented her from accepting defeat.
Thank you for reading,
Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi, Founder of DEP
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As a child who taste, feel and lived poverty, I think it made me better. It gave me more wisdom, because if I fall, I know where I will land.