Little things that you do can impact somebody's life. Werther it is positively or negatively.

The story of Jesus Colon can occur in anyone's daily life. Jesus came home late from work, and he saw a woman-a white one- holding a big luggage with 3 small children, one is a baby. Colon's Negro side told him that he shouldn't do it because it was the time period when all the blacks and whites are separated in the United States. But his Puerto Rican side told him to help her because it is the right thing to do. Alas, he followed his Negro instincts and ignored the white woman. He feels horrible afterwards. This is a connection to Jason van Genderen's "Mankind is no Island" because in the video, van Genderen said to not walk away from people that need help, but Colon just walked away from the woman that really needs help.

This painting is called One world, One hope by Joe Average. He is a painter that lives with HIV/AIDS.



What Do We Do with a Variation?

What do we do with a difference?
Do we stand and discuss its oddity
or do we ignore it?
Do we shut our eyes to it
or poke it with a stick?
Do we clobber it to death?
Do we move around it in rage
and enlist the rage of others?
Do we will it to go away?
Do we look at it in awe
or purely in wonderment?
Do we work for it to disappear?
Do we pass it stealthily
Or change route away from it?
Do we will it to become like ourselves?
What do we do with a difference?
Do we communicate to it,
let application acknowledge it
for barriers to fall down?
James Berry


I think that this poem relates to Jesus Colon because instead of breaking the racism in his time period, he just ignores the lady so he doesn't get in trouble. "Do we clobber it to death?" wrote Berry. This line really stood out to me because it reminds me of Hitler. Differences make us who we are and nobody has a right to change that. When I was little, I used to think that everyone in the world lived all happy together, but that was back when I was naive. While growing up, I learnt that not everyone is connected. But I think that that's the way to live. Hand in hand.