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Deep Hate: Can It Be Changed. . .Before It's Too Late?

© Richard Kent Matthews

You probably live in a city or town that has community access TV channels. In my city, there are several.

The other night, I was flipping through the channels and happened upon a weird little program put on by the so-called Aryan Nation. This white guy, around 30, was spouting about how the white race was superior, how he hated Hispanics and Jews in particular, and what we needed to do to get rid of "the pests." He didn't come right out and advocate murder and terrorism, but it was implied-heavily.

The guy claimed that the white race had given all its best stuff-technology, literature, music, art-- to the inferior races of Asia, Africa and South America. And they had used it all against us. What?

He said that the other races, especially Hispanics, were overrunning the United States and turning it into a Third World country. They only take, he said; they don't really contribute anything of substance. What?

He said that the Jews were using the US to perpetuate their own agenda, that is, to totally control the Middle East. They take American money from American banks, that is, American pockets, to finance their covert operations around the world. What?

Then, in a final bit of rage, he declared war on Islam. The Muslims, he claimed, were pouring into the US and setting us up for the internal war of wars. They were planning on bombing everything possible to bring the US to its knees. Then, when it was weakened, the Muslim groups from outside the US could come and take control, demolishing American democracy-and thus, the democracies all over the world--and setting up an Islamic theocracy in its place. What?

Growing up in the 50's, I encountered a lot of racism. Most of the kids I went to school with were white, and they thought nothing of telling racist and sexist jokes. Me, too, I'm afraid. It didn't matter; it wasn't important. We were not told that black people, Hispanic people, and Asian people were actually part of the human family. Oh, we knew they were human, in a sense, but they were different from us, less educated and educable; they were dirty, and caused most of the crime in our cities. They came in from foreign countries and stole jobs from white people. And you didn't want your daughter or sister or even son to marry one.

Did our schoolteachers seek to enlighten us with the truth? Did they tell us that these other folks who seemed so different were actually the same as us, with dreams and hopes and fears? Did they admonish us to treat people who appeared different with understanding and friendship?

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