‘We Are All Red Inside’

By Tunde Oseni

One sunny Sunday

I ran across the Park

And I jogged along the mark

As I looked left and right

I saw faces around the pitch

Every kid of Mother Nature within reach

Wandering about

In the sea of life

From wherever each of us may come

And whichever race each of us may claim

Only one race indeed exists

And that is the human race

White, black, blue or brown

‘We are all red inside’[1]

[1] Phrase first encountered during a Xmas Lunch (25 December, 2010) conversation with Terry Dunn, a 64-year old British Linguist and University Receptionist at Hope Hall, Exeter University, United Kingdom:  The idea is that all humans, black or white, carry red blood in our veins, and therefore we should see ourselves as one.

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By Tunde Oseni

Dr Tunde Oseni bagged a First Class Honours degree in Political Science from Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan, where he was a MacArthur Foundation scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon in 2005. He did his National Youth Service as a Graduate Assistant at the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. He then got a scholarship to study for an MSc at the prestigious University of Oxford, United Kingdom, after which he got another scholarship to do a Doctorate and was simultaneously appointed as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Exeter, UK. Dr Oseni has participated in several international conferences and summer institutes across Africa and Europe and currently teaches Comparative Politics, Public Administration and Leadership Studies at Crawford University, Igbesa, Nigeria. He enjoys reading, meditating, and meeting people.

4 comments

  3. Excellent poem. if we realize this, how easily we could all live peacefully togather, tolerate one another, and accept one another

  4. T’is true
    that we’re all red inside.
    But t’is also true
    that we are all red outside,
    Because
    the blood of Christ
    covers us all.

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