I AM NOT A LABEL

                I AM NOT A LABEL 

I am not BLACK 

I mean, that's what the world calls me,

But it's not me.

I didn't come out of my mother's womb saying....

"Hey everyone, I'm BLACK."

No! I was taught to be BLACK

And you were taught to call me that.

Along with whatever you call yourself.

It's just a LABEL.

See, from birth,the world force feed us these LABELS.

And eventually we all swallow them.

We digest them and accept the LABEL.

Never ever doubting them.

But there is a problem,

LABELS are not you, and LABELS are not me.

LABELS are just LABELS.

Who we truly are is not skin deep.

See, when I drive my car,

No one would ever confuse the car for me.

Well, when I drive my body,

Why did you confuse me for my body?

It's my body. Get it? Not me.

Let me break it down.

See, our bodies are just cars that we operate and drive around.

The dealership we call "SOCIETY" decided to label mine "BLACK" edition.

Yours the "IRISH" or "WHITE" edition.

And with no money down, 0% APR and no test drive,

We were forced to own these cars for the rest of our lives.

Forgive me, but I fail to see the logic or pride in defining myself,

Or judging another by the cars we drive,

Because who we truly are is found inside.

I'm not here to tell you how science has concluded that genetically, we are all mixed.

And race in the human species doesn't exist,

Or how every historian knows that race was invented in the 15th century to divide people from each other.

And it has worked perfectly.

No! I'm not here to lecture,

I'm just here to ask one question:

Who would you be if the world never gave you a label?

Never gave you a box to check?

Would you be WHITE? BLACK? MEXICAN? ASIAN? MIDDLE EASTERN? INDIAN? NATIVE AMERICAN?

NO! We would be ONE.

We would be together, 

No longer living in error of calling human beings "Black" people or "White" people.

These LABELS that will forever blind us from seeing a person for who they are.

But instead,seeing them through the judgmental, prejudicial, artificial filters of who we think they are.

And when you let an "Artificial Label" define yourself,
Then,My friend, you have choosen smallness over greatness and minimized yourself.
Confined and divided yourself from others.

It's an undeniable fact that where there is division, there will be conflict, and conflicts start wars.
Therefore, every wars has started over LABELS.
It's always US versus THEM.

So the answer to War, Racism, Sexism, Elitism, Anti-Semitism, and every other "-ISM" is so simple that every other politician missed it.
It's the LABELS.
We must rip them off.

Isn't it funny, how no baby is born Racist?
Yet every baby cries when they hear the cries of another.
No matter the gender,color, or culture.
Proving that deep down we were meant to connect and care for each other.
That is our Mission.
And that it not my opinion.
That is the truth,in a world that has sold us fiction.

Please listen, Labels only distort our vision which is why half of those reading this will dismiss it or feel resistance and conflicted.
But just remember, so did the caterpillar before it broke through its shell and became the Magnificent Butterfly.
Well, these Labels are our shells and we must do the same thing.
So we can finally spread our wings.

Human beings were not meant to be slapped with labels like Groceries at Supermarket.
We are meant to be free,
And only until we remove them all and stop living and thinking small,
Will we be free to see ourselves and each other for who we truly are.

Thank you