1st Draft Script for Surrey Urban Youth Project PSA video
“O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another.” -Surah Al-Hujurât, Verse 13 -Al Qur’an
In a free and multicultural society such as ours,
where the government can not mandate our actions,
It is easy to forget our responsibility to learn
to acquire knowledge of our histories
our cultures,
of each other.
We are often led to believe that our differences are merely physical
That those of different skin colours, or nationalities are really all the same,
when we are not.
There is a difference between equality
and being the same.
We each have unique and rich backgrounds
that can add to each other,
yet we somehow manage to find someone, anyone, to discriminate against.
An inkling of something we don’t understand,
and we act out, in fear of being changed ourselves.
Wiping out populations of natives.
Enslaving free black people.
Taxing chinese immigrants.
Angrily conducting race riots.
Sending the japanese to internment camps.
Attacking the muslims verbally and physically.
we stand by, knowing it will pass as it usually does,
assuming some other group will be next
and that that too will pass.
without stopping to consider prevention
without educating ourselves on our differences
and celebrating them
and learning from them
and realizing that by not taking up our responsibility to learn
we defeat the purpose of freedom
and dishonour those that fought for it
We ignore that we are made in to nations and tribes for a reason;
so that we may know one another.
