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Everyone sing along!
He’s a racist
She’s a racist
You’re a racist
I’m a racist
Wouldn’t you like to be a racist too?
Show your faces
Come be a racist
From all places
We are all racists.
Sitting on a park bench, a dog walks by, thistles stuck in its fur, dried fecal matter on its leg hair. Our reaction? “Poor puppy.” Matter of fact, we might look through our pockets to see if we might have a snack to offer the unfortunate creature.
Same day, same park.
A homeless man strolls by—dirty pants, nine-day-old growth of beard and tousled hair. We look at him and conclude, “Goddam bum.”
You see, it doesn’t matter what color we are. It isn’t as if white people don’t hate white people or black, black. Brown folks hate the various shades of beige, Asians attack Asians, and the Cherokee nation, the Navajo tribe.
It is not a color issue.
It is not a culture situation. It’s not a religious affiliation. After all, the Baptists bicker with the Baptists, the Catholics abuse their own, the Jews pull rank on one another and the Muslim terrorists kill more Muslims than Christians.
Staying with that dog example, if we were dogs, the human race would be pit bulls, adamantly insisting that the problem is not our breed, but rather, how we were trained.
Candidly, it wouldn’t matter if we finally found a way through eugenics to come up with one, single color for all Homo Sapiens. We would still commence murdering one another over eyebrows.
It may seem easier to blame it on color scheme, religion or patriotism, but we all are human racists. Allegedly, the first murder was committed by one brother on another brother.
In other words, they looked alike.
If we don’t get rid of human racism—an ironic hatred for our own beings—we will never be able to overcome the lack of similarities accomplished by evolution.
Here’s what causes human racism, if you’re interested in actually addressing it and once and for all identifying it in your being:
1. I need to be special.
Actually, you’re not, my friend—not unless you decide to do or be something special to the world around you.
2. I need to stand out.
The chances of that happening are few, and then could always be caused by your iniquity instead of your contribution to goodness.
3. I need to withhold praise just in case…
Yes, because you’re frightened that you won’t be appreciated enough, you decide to keep focus on yourself instead of valuing the gifts of others, even when their inspiration has benefitted you.
4. I need to hurt somebody.
Perhaps you prefer to do it in a civil way, using gossip or innuendo, but if necessary—if you find others completely annoying—you are willing to kill them for the cause of your country, your family or your Christ. So please, trace racism back to where it began:
Despising others because we’re dissatisfied with ourselves.
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