There was an episode of the old TV series Star Trek that had the above title. In the episode, the Enterprise picks up two survivors of a war-torn planet who are still committed to destroying each other aboard the ship. The two are unique in that they are each black on one side and white on the other. But the colors are on the opposite sides on each of them. One of them is a “slave” and the other is a “master”. The crew of the Enterprise are surprised at the war between the two, since on the show, racial differences are non existent on earth. The crew do not see the two as different, since they are both white and black. Their difference lies in the fact that their colors are on different sides, and to the two that makes a huge difference.
As a society today, we often find differences between ourselves and others. We are not the same color, or we don’t share the same religion, or we live in different areas, or we don’t share the same beliefs. I wonder when or if we will ever get to the place where the crew of the Enterprise was on that episode. They saw the two aliens as the same. They saw the two as the same, both black and white. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we stopped seeing ourselves as different from others, and started seeing all of us as children of God.
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