This afternoon at around 2:30pm in hot sadistic sun, I was returning to work but couldn't help seeing a person going about his daily work routine. here I am sitting in my car, comfortably in a/c listening to UB40 (Kingston town) waiting on a red light. I couldn't help but noticing a young strong haitian construction worker, hammering away at concrete sidewalk, breaking it down for the laying of the underground electric cables. It was hot as hell, the sun was at its peak, yet the haitian young man was hammering away the whole city block right below the hot sun. He paused to take a breath before he would slam the huge hammer crushing down on the concrete ground below. He was achieving little as the floor below was tough and he had almost the whole block to go. He was being helped by just another haitian fellow.
Boy o boy, this has got to be the toughest job at the moment in santiago. This guy was probably paid around 300 pesos / day's work and some free water and simple meal. I am sure he does this day in, day out. Just the thought of me doing this work, made my back hurt. This is insane amount of work for such tiny cash. I felt sorry for him, called him over and gave him something to buy some cold drinks. It was enough to make him smile which reflected almost true happiness for the moment.
I went on to tend my business and I am sure he is still hammering away on the sidewalk.
So my question remains: Are we truly created equal? if the answer is yes, then I hope you folks would be able to convince the man who is still hammering away his youth for 300 pesos per day while we sit here in comfort and chat away the afternoon reading silly posts on Dr1.
AZB
No, we're NOT...
Just like animals have a hierarchy so do we Homosepians.
Take chickens, there's one that pecks all others but not one single chick can peck back at it.
Take bees, they have a set order and not one single bee is allowed to pick what place it should fall into.
Take us...
Do you really believe man evolved from some fish to a monkey to a caveman?
Yet, if genetics serves us well, and believe me it's agreed it does by 100% of smart nerds, traits are not mutants! So if we take under consideration that we have acute racial traits in this world; we must then agree that it took the same number of lucky evolutionists fishes at about the same time to come with our cool world full of so distant Homosepians...
Now, lets us move to the actual point of equality in our world...
Let's remove race as the factoring point of hierarchy, since race was not an issue at the earliest recorded existence of slavery in our puny world.
Let's remove wealth, since it was not a matter of who was better to do when foreign forces ransacked, looted and enslaved entire villages, even cities.
Let's remove advancement, since it's recorded that highly civilized and educated nations fell on the feet of barbarians that without written language almost were buried unnoticed of history if not by their incursions unto the far more advanced Homosepians of the time.
Let's remove those off our way...
Now, we have that most enslavement was due to the need of hands to do hard labor; services came later as slave owners found a way to teach them tricks. What better workforce than the one you don't have to pay to, clothe, and feed as you fed yours?
Slaves for the most part had to fend for themselves came time to feed and clothe their bodies to shield from the elements. Enslavers did little of this as provided by research.
Just as a house cat is in the same line of a tiger; as both females give birth the same way, take care of the litter the same. But one thing is very noticeable not the same! A house cat won't rip your chest open to feed off you! So too are the complexities of Homosepians equal in this factors.
Some can argue because of their self conscious (whatever that is) in a different way, but the data supports it.
Blacks (people of color) are more adept to elements that are present in their habitats than any white or fair skinned person could (healthy) stand.
If you take a Zulu across the Sahara desert for a week travel on foot, no shades around, with their native clothing along a white person just as well in the same duds. The results could be fit for an ambulance finish for the white subject at the end of the trip (if he got that far along).
Same thing happens in any setting you find the race divide habitats on this world today. Yet, you see very little of this Black folks daring habitats where the temperatures drop below the mercury scale.
We're not created equal for a long shot...
We're Homosepians as in the type of species we belong to, but quite another is the definition of equality a term to be described as one size fits all.
We're built like machines to a goal.
We have Formula 1 race cars that won't see the pave of any street of any city on this world, other than the racing circuit for which it was the concept for.
Hierarchy has a purpose in our civilization, in fact you can hardly argue against the fact that civilization itself is HERARCHY!
Our most elemental cell on the syntax of our civilize society as species is that of the family nucleus. The simplest and basic building bloc of our civilization.
Yet, it's within this simple building bloc where the traits of our entire society as a whole come to evolve from. Hierarchy is at the center and all of it.
Jut as the chicken hierarchy (their civilization) bloc, so unravels ours.
No two men are equal or same. This is truth even to their most basic anatomical and genetically level. Let alone their individual selves.
You're not born a slave, a brunt worker, a miner, a school teacher, a tycoon. But you certainly are groomed for it and depending on your selves; it dictates your place in this civilization.
Einstein was not born a genius or with a brain wired any spec different from the guy driving the bus. He was groomed since young because of his attitude and self drive.
Just like some people excel at arts, sports, medicine and other fields. So too do others in unwanted and abhorred careers like criminals and serial killers.
Some people believe in Gods, others in traditions. One thing is certain:
We're not here because the cosmic farted... (Theory of the big bang without a match to lit it)
Think of the first guy who had the balls to eat fungus and poisonous foods to find out what was edible and what was not. Not the brightest bulb at his best finding in the history of mankind...
Do we look similar? Yes we do... Are we created equals? NOT.
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