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Deep Hate: Can It Be Changed. . .Before It's Too Late? - Page 2

© Richard Kent Matthews

Hardly. Most of the teachers and administrators-and our parents--were as prejudice as the kids. That's where we got it.

And what about our ministers? Once in a great while, I would hear a preacher mention that we should be "tolerant" of our darker brothers and sisters, but for the most part, I rarely heard any truly loving language concerning racially different people coming from the pulpit.

Has all that ended? To a degree, but not completely. We still carry a great deal of prejudice in our collective hearts. It may seem subtle, but not to those who are still the recipients of it. And it's not just white people who are prejudice. Americans of every stripe carry seeds of racism, sexism, homophobia, even ageism. You don't have to be Caucasian to be mean-spirited.

Now, with all the terrorism reports, all the bombings and shootings in London, New York, Baghdad, and Egypt (and probably more by the time this is published), more and more people are allowing the old prejudiced mindset to return. "Kill all the Muslims" read a sign in downtown Portland just the other day.

Are the Muslims to blame for all the world's trouble? Of course not. There is a handful of radicals who are claiming that they kill in the name of Islam, to destroy the enemies of Islam, to protect the good names of Allah and Muhammad. But the vast majority of Muslims, like the vast majority of Christians, Jews, and Hindus, are peace loving, hard working people. They want the best for their children, for their neighborhoods, for their nations. A few misguided fundamentalists, who believe they are doing God's will, are actually setting the world up for a possible letting of blood unlike anything we have ever experienced in world history. And no one, including the radicals, will win.

Can we change that scenario? Do we even want to change it? If we can, how? When? With what?

You will learn how next month. You don't want to miss it. You play a major role.

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