Two kinds of people on this planet.

[Boost Assendahm]

Two kinds of people on this planet:

1. Racists
2. Pretenders

Everyone is a racist at some point and on some level during his life. We may not even notice or be aware of it, when it happens, but it does and will happen. This is certainly not a defense of racism or prejudice or hatred or jealousy of any kind. This is simply an acknowledgement that we all are guilty of all human frailties at some point during our lives. We can choose to try to be better, to ignore the slights, the outright offenses and to work together as human beings to make our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods and communities better for all of us.

Or we can opt for another primal/tribal tendency in us all, and that is to cast blame, to hate, to insult, to make jokes about, to point fingers, to accuse and deride anyone we perceive as different from us in any way. We are all human beings, and that is a paltry start toward working on and achieving some form of coexistence. We can choose a spiritual path toward loving our fellow man. We can continue to ignore and exclude and hate our fellow man or we can pretend that our elected officials will do something about it, while we get back to our naps.

Those are our only functional choices. If you want to consider the homeless population in this country as one example of how NONE of those directions are working (regardless of political party or how educated or religious our voters are), then you would be holding the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The exciting or sad reality (depending on your perspective) is that WE (we the people) can fix it all. But WE have to do it. Waiting for someone else to do it has not worked and will never work.

 

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Two kinds of people on this planet:

1. Racists
2. Pretenders

Everyone is a racist at some point and on some level during his life. We may not even notice or be aware of it, when it happens, but it does and will happen. This is certainly not a defense of racism or prejudice or hatred or jealousy of any kind. This is simply an acknowledgement that we all are guilty of all human frailties at some point during our lives. We can choose to try to be better, to ignore the slights, the outright offenses and to work together as human beings to make our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods and communities better for all of us.

Or we can opt for another primal/tribal tendency in us all, and that is to cast blame, to hate, to insult, to make jokes about, to point fingers, to accuse and deride anyone we perceive as different from us in any way. We are all human beings, and that is a paltry start toward working on and achieving some form of coexistence. We can choose a spiritual path toward loving our fellow man. We can continue to ignore and exclude and hate our fellow man or we can pretend that our elected officials will do something about it, while we get back to our naps.

Those are our only functional choices. If you want to consider the homeless population in this country as one example of how NONE of those directions are working (regardless of political party or how educated or religious our voters are), then you would be holding the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The exciting or sad reality (depending on your perspective) is that WE (we the people) can fix it all. But WE have to do it. Waiting for someone else to do it has not worked and will never work.

That's not right. Most people are not racist. That's a big cop-out slogan many use to bash those who simply disagree with them. Prejudice, yeah there is a bunch of that going around. Everybody pre-judges since that is the oldest survival technique in existence. And all animals are trained to use that technique. We don't handle snakes since they may be venomous and bite. Snakes avoid humans because we strike out at them. You don't go into certain neighborhoods in Atlanta alone and walk down the dark streets. You don't live in certain neighborhoods. You wouldn't travel in parts of the middle east. We have an innate sense of danger, or of being taken advantage of so we learn to be cautious and pre-judge as kids. The problem comes in when you are accused of being racist if you choose to live in Forsyth rather than what is commonly called the Ghetto. That's called survival. And it is reality based, not racist. The folks who want to gain power through intimidation have gotten good at confusing the two.

Most black people I know, most Muslim folks I have known prefer to be around their own kind of culture and familiar faces. Orlando is the hottest growing metro area in America simply because P. Ricans are fleeing their failing economy. AND P Ricans in NY are moving there in record numbers to be around familiar faces, culture and lifestyles. That is reality, not racism on the part of P Ricans.