I hope my words find fertile soil in even just one person whose heart can resonate with the positive that I hope to express today. Here is the message.
We are all human. Eace face we look in is a mirror. We are the same being separated by air and ideals. We are different because we have different experiences. Some find it hard to love because someone found it hard to love them. Good and evil come in waves and cycles. Have you ever played with the water that was in the bath tub? Have you ever pushed it away from you and watched bounce back towards you? Good and evil are both concepts that are formless like water. We become the containers that give them shape and they become fluid and powerful as much as we exert force.
Crude thinking believes that someone who did evil to you can be overcome by hatred and by doing evil back to them. You simply, ignorantly, become them. If you hate them then and set about doing to them what they did you yourself should become someone you hate. But if you really love what they do, that’s when you adopt their ways. Many people who claim so much hate for a people purely based on their race and racial history are really in love with their ways. How different is a racist black man from a racist clan member? If you hate their ways then you should be repelled away from doing the same things and from living the same unrighteous life. But they tell us with their lips that they hate the them but with their actions they embrace the worst of them.
This life is a test. It’s not about overcoming a group of people. They’re just a reflection of you with a different face. It’s about overcoming evil. That’s the best way to fight evil and the only way to win. Only goodness can overcome evil. People are drawn to hatred as if it is strength. Hatred of people is ignorance and mental weakness. If you have emotional hurt, deal with it. USE it to help you grow. Don’t use it to explain why you can’t. Don’t be so weak. If someone has defeated your mind, only then have they defeated you fully. I call you all to adopt the ways of love, knowing that this requires something you may not have yet and that is mental strength. Hate is easy. It takes more strength to love; more power to forsake yourself and put the needs of others ahead. Instead of being consumed by how you feel slighted, disrespected, and abased, show people how to love, how to respect, how to be strong on the inside. When you are strong on the inside (spiritually) the physical will follow. We should strive to love ALL people; even our enemies and those who curse us.
We can love them and reject the wrongs they have done and help them to change by showing them a better way. If not then we are only becoming like them. A child isn’t evil simply because they do wrong. It’s only when they don’t want to do right. We are ALL children of the Most High and we are ALL in need of forgiveness. Give it and you will receive it. All racism does is serve to divide us; serve to create and maintain the boundaries that give room to foster anger and hate.
When you don’t have dealings with people of other cultures there is a lot about them you really don’t understand. It is easy to think that because someone doesn’t understand you that you can penalize them by drawing away from them. However, that separation simply creates more mystery, more misunderstanding, more ignorance. We’re simply feeding that ignorance by not allowing each side to get to know each other. Like it or not they are getting to “know” the worst of each group because those are the ones most vocal or morst infamous. Because we haven’t had many (mentally/spiritually) intimate relationships with “them” they haven’t had many with us and therefore we tend to judge each other by those who are famous. But usually those who are famous are famous beceause they’re outside of the norm. And most of the time we don’t judge our own “race” or people by those of us who are famous because we know better. We know they do not accurately represent us. The same is true for every stereotype that exists. The best way to combat racism is not by confrontation or passive ignorance of the problem. It’s simply by getting to know each other and building relationships. The rest will heal itself.
And for the critics who don’t believe this is possible…. its because you don’t BELIEVE its possible that makes it so. If you haven’t tried then you haven’t failed.
Shalom
REACH OUT:
Do you have something positive that you can say? That you can add to the social consciousness? Don’t be afraid to say it. We must all work to change our environment. Yah works through us.
