My APUSH chapter study guide is on slavery, and as i studied for my presentation tomorrow, my mind wandered as it always does. Often i read in strange voices or attempted accents to keep myself focused. But nothing was settling the frenzied rush rush rush of activity inside my head. Its still bouncing off the walls, leaving numerous infintesimal dents

I thought a lot about how black people were enslaved, and how blatantly wrong this seems to us today. Back then, this might have been a radical thought. I thought about how they werent allowed to marry on the plantations, yet according to my textbook, "family ties were no less strong than those of whites, and many slave marriages lasted thoughout the course of long lifetimes".

The book also said that southern whites, whether they owned slaves or not, were united by the common factor that "however poor and miserable these white southerners were, they could still consider themselves members of a ruling race; they could still look down on the black population and feel a bond with their fellow whites born of a determination to maintain their racial supremacy"

I wonder when it will be that our textbooks will say

Gay marriages were not allowed in most states, yet in places that they were family ties were no less strong than those of heterosexuals, and many homosexual marriages lasted throughout the course of long lifetimes. However ostracized or poor straight citizens could be, they could still consider themselves members of a ruling race; they could still look down on the homosexual population and feel a bond with their fellow straights born of a determination to maintain their cultural supremacy"

I wonder when we will look back and not even see blacks as a separate race, since we are all part of the human race. I wonder when we will stop seeing gays, or other out of favor groups of people, as a separate "race" to this effect. I wonder when the human race as a whole will all have equal rights. Especially basic and fundamental ones to love.

I wonder if this will ever happen at all?