There are many subjects that seem to be held in silent contemplation when in an unfamiliar crowd but are excepted when likeminded persons meet to vent their opinion on a subject at hand, as long as they agree with the orator’s agenda.  This not an American problem, but a human one, shared across the globe from the tiniest Kenya village to the great metropolises of the world. As far back as recorded history goes we humans have always had our prejudices, our contempt for those that don’t believe as we do or have a different color of skin, ideologies, world views that seem strange from the inward lookers prospective.  Religion, Politics, sexual orientation, boarders that define those that live across the tracks as those people these are the Taboos of too many trees were we just can’t see the forest. Taboo is defined is some respects as. (a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing).

 I think we all understand the implications of how troubling it is judge without understanding but we all do in some form or another.  Back before this Nation was formed from the great experiment of European revolt against sane and reasonable value of the individual to seek liberty, not freedom but liberty to different things, freedom comes at the cost of standing against the horror of indifference and despots  of human physical and mental torcher, while liberty is a hope that all we have strangled against will never reshape the landscape of brotherhood back into the cinder fields of strife, and conflict , conquest that places the victor in the end in the dust bin of history. That is the defining message in, “Give me liberty or give me Death” Roger Williams once said of this, "distressed of conscience”. In August 1637 was born an idea of liberty of conscience". But it is more than just an idea this liberty of conscience, this distressed of conscience that leads to indifference to the rights of man. Yes, over the course of some five thousand years we have come far yet in the simplest ideas that shape the human we are still defined by those taboos that keep us apart, keeps us from advancing toward a unified world, were we see not the color of one’s skin, not the religious belief, not the course of human dignity. We still find it impossible at times to touch the contours of the heart, that we cannot be island in the stream that drives the heart home. 

Our world I like to say at times is felled with so much hope, so much promise yet we fail ourselves in achieving some of the basic human needs, understanding that yes, we are all different but we are not strangers to the prospect of unconditional hope that tomorrow will be better than today.  A new dawn is upon us how we face the challenges of a world of uncertainty will set us upon a course, we have seen before but will we find our way to a greater awareness, or will we continue to place our taboos at the forefront of how we see each other, it’s an open question but in time I believe we will be able to notice, see walk through that wonderful forest and set peacefully among the trees.