I watched Freedom the other night-  a movie featuring Cuba Gooding as a father who helps his family escape the shackles of slavery. It got me thinking about the primal nature of man - that it is his own insecurity that drives him to control and dominate others. If only man could look beyond skin colour, facial features, hair texture, accent even academic qualifications,  and see the beauty within others, the world would be a better place. Discrimination in the workplace or school is as commonplace today as it was centuries ago. It is a blight on humankind often engendered in children by ignorant adults or societies. Has anything changed? Are our hearts still as hard as flint?
It is a topic I touched on in A Company of Odd Folk in the hope that my readers would question their attitudes to other people and understand "the same blood runs through all our veins."
Now when I think about it, I should have explored it a little more. :-)