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In one way of another, I think these stories are all old news. I mean old as in they've been happening for many years without real change. And all of them seem to me to be the same underneath.
In each case one of the "sides" (maybe both?) sees the other as a thing, an object, a problem, instead of a person.
The solution, so very hard, apparently, is to see a person as a person first. A person like you, with things they want, they love, they dislike. Don't see their sex, their religion, their color, their politics, until you see them first as a person. Then make sure you behave only as you would like to be treated.
Literature has myriad examples of how all of these issues should be handled, many in children's books, though not always. Wouldn't we be a better world if we followed the examples followed or discovered by the protagonists in the following?
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Summer of My German Soldier
Flowers for Algernon
Bridge to Terabithia
Let me know if you have any special books you'd add to the list.
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