I am because other people are.
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.