Equality - the Unfulfilled Dream

I wrote Part One of this book at the request of a dear friend of mine who was struggling with the issue of equality as it related to his race. He knew that I had strong opinions about the issue of equality and thought that it might be beneficial if I offered my take on the issue (since I was white).Over the course of the next three or four months during our travels together as consultants, I wrote the first group (Part One) of poems dealing with all forms of equality. We would sit over...
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I wrote Part One of this book at the request of a dear friend of mine who was struggling with the issue of equality as it related to his race. He knew that I had strong opinions about the issue of equality and thought that it might be beneficial if I offered my take on the issue (since I was white).Over the course of the next three or four months during our travels together as consultants, I wrote the first group (Part One) of poems dealing with all forms of equality. We would sit over dinner (usually very late at night) and discuss the poems. Some discussions were quite animated until I could explain the poems in sufficient detail for him to understand what I was ?really? trying to say with the poem being discussed. We usually took long bike rides on the weekends we were home to simply get away from it all, to get a little exercise (very little since we spent most of our time sitting on the side of the road talking), and above all, just interacting with each other on our opinions about the issue of equality. These discussions produced many of the poems in Part One.Years later I married a lady from Santiago Chile who was a strong advocate of the issue of Child and Spousal Abuse. During my travels in Chile I came to understand that equality was more than just the issues I wrote about in Part One, so Part Two is basically dedicated to the woman of Chile who inspired these poems.While progress is being made all over the globe on the issue of equality, I still feel that this world has a long way to go before we can claim that abuse is abolished. The title of this book reflects this opinion.