We sometimes miss being humain

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I think this idea that we share

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this common humanity is
something that we arrive at.

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It's a journey much like Malcolm X,

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although his was a fairly
dramatic conversion experience.

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But we are so shaped
by our racial identity,

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our gender identity,
sexual orientation,

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whatever and those are all very
important to who we are.

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In fact together,
they make up who we are.

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But at its very base
we are all human beings.

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At the very foundation
of what it means

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to live and breathe in this world
we share a common humanity.

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But it's often hard to see
and often hard to miss

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because we're so caught up
in our other identities.

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The mystic theologian
Howard Thurman said that

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we were so busy being
black or white

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in our lives that we don't really
spend much time just being human.