We need to start being mindful of this face. We have to teach ourselves to be careful with not only what we say but also what we do, for it’s not always just about you. If you act like your words do not inflict others, then are we trying to signify that we are the only human with a heart? For example, in “The Good Samaritan”, the priest and levite that passed by the beaten traveller were seeming to only care about themselves. They were disregarding the feelings and discomfort of others. They did not stop, even when they saw that the traveller was distraught and had been robbed. They were being egocentric. Additionally, I can see that during one of the most well-known civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr’s, time period there were many encounters where people were being cruel to the “coloreds” and did not take people’s feelings into contemplation. There were signs dividing restaurants for coloreds and whites, water fountains for the coloreds, and even different schools. Society was not thinking about how this would make someone of a different race feel, they were taking measures that were not necessary, they were acting like someone from a different nationality was stricken with a disease of some kind. Someone else’s feelings was the last thing that was on their
We need to start being mindful of this face. We have to teach ourselves to be careful with not only what we say but also what we do, for it’s not always just about you. If you act like your words do not inflict others, then are we trying to signify that we are the only human with a heart? For example, in “The Good Samaritan”, the priest and levite that passed by the beaten traveller were seeming to only care about themselves. They were disregarding the feelings and discomfort of others. They did not stop, even when they saw that the traveller was distraught and had been robbed. They were being egocentric. Additionally, I can see that during one of the most well-known civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr’s, time period there were many encounters where people were being cruel to the “coloreds” and did not take people’s feelings into contemplation. There were signs dividing restaurants for coloreds and whites, water fountains for the coloreds, and even different schools. Society was not thinking about how this would make someone of a different race feel, they were taking measures that were not necessary, they were acting like someone from a different nationality was stricken with a disease of some kind. Someone else’s feelings was the last thing that was on their