“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.” Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays. Photo: Geralt/Pixabay. Some rights reserved.
Since the shocking murder of Jo Cox MP, we have heard the phrase that we have more in common with each other than the differences between us. Yet recent reports and studies into the treatment of minority ethnic people in Britain continue to highlight diversity in a negative and divisive way. Most recently, the optimistically entitled The Casey Review – A review into opportunity and integration, focused on the differences between us at a time when unity above all else is required. In the Foreword section, Dame Casey begins as she means to go on:
“At the start of this review, I had thought that I knew what some of the problems might be and what I might report on. Discrimination and disadvantage feeding a sense of grievance and unfairness, isolating communities from modern British society and all it has to offer.
