There is No Them Here

We build skyscraper forts out of the labels we use to characterize "others", and hurl epithets and worse at "them". Yet we are all members of the same species, live on the same planet, and have the same basic biological needs. How do we reconcile the immense barriers we've created between individual subsets of us and them with the basic facts of our earthly human existence? (7/29/2018)