Figurative Walls

Walls Walls are a part of everyday experience. We've lived within metaphorical, abstract, real and imagined walls from birth. Most of us were delivered in a hospital, and even from that moment, we were contained within the walls of protection that the doctors and our new parents gave us. Where else do walls incorporate more of who we are as individuals and as a society? Our nations are founded upon one and perhaps many different …

…sometimes put between interracial couples, all affect or lives more then we realize. In writing and forcing myself to recognize these walls I realize that more often then not they’re a problem that needs to be faced. I think people should be forced to look at these walls like I did so that they might see that they are a problem. The sooner we face these walls the sooner they will be broken down.