Challenge
Write about the concepts of intolerance (unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own) and coexistence (the state or condition of living in harmony despite different ideologies or interests). Take a situation from your own life experience and tell way and how you chose to exercise one or both of these two life paths. $10 prize Non-fiction. Any format.
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What I Must Do
Why must I tolerate intolerance?
Why must I be the calm one when angry red faces and red hats
Scream in my face to go to hell,
to leave my own country for daring
To stand up to injustice?
I was quiet, fearful of
being given the cold shoulder.
Why must I worry about alienation
because my own family cannot tolerate
Love and acceptance of all?
Why must I love those who would kill me?
No more, I have decided.
Too much is at stake for me to think of
what I must do to be accepted.
So much for the tolerant left!
I will not sit down, quiet and pretty while
they shoot my friends down in the streets,
While politicians pat their fat pockets,
paid by the companies helping them
Murder us in schools.
We must not let them
stomp out our flame.
We
Must
Resist.