Racism and hatred
are two of the ugliest concepts that plague our world. Hatred is the destroyer
of men. While violence, words, and deeds carried out in hatred can destroy
lives and property; it is the hatred within that causes the most
destruction to our societies and to our souls. Our greatest enemy is the devil,
who hates us all and wants us to hate each other. Shall we glorify
him by fostering the hate and giving in to it? Perhaps, our greatest enemy then
is ourselves, since the devil can suggest the hate to our psyche, but he can’t
make us savor it. That is the choice we make for ourselves.
Some people can
only feel hatred for what they don’t understand, calling what they see
"ugly" without looking to see what is underneath...while if they
looked behind their own mask they would see the true ugliness that defines the
ugliness they see in others.
I believe that Jesus
had an additional agenda when he said to love our enemies, that it was not
merely for the sake of love that he commanded us to love them. If we loved our
enemies and did good things for them, helping them and blessing them, how could
we still hate them and call them our enemies? Now if only all the people of the
world could grasp that as well.
Martin Luther King Jr. said:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate
multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies
toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil
— hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall
be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”
"Now first let us deal with this
question, which is the practical question: How do you go about loving your
enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you
must begin by analyzing self. And I’m sure that seems strange to you, that I
start out telling you this morning that you love your enemies by beginning with
a look at self. It seems to me that that is the first and foremost way to come
to an adequate discovery to the how of this situation." --Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
"A second thing that an individual must
do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his
enemy, and every time you begin to hate that person and think of hating that
person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points
which will over-balance the bad points." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
I wrote this about 20 years ago:
“What’s Up, My Brother?”
I was walking down a common road, a simple day like any
other
When a black man said to me, “Whassup, my brother?”
At first I gave no thought to what the guy had said
But then I saw the light, and the truth in my head
Different colors to the eye
But why the discord? I don’t know why
Racism is the devil’s lie
We must overcome; it’s worth the try
The Father creator made us each a certain way
Two different forms from one piece of clay
He made him black; he made me white
He made him dark; he made me light
But we both came from the same ancestral mother
It’s time to remember, we are each the other’s brother
God the Father, God the Son
Creator and redeemer loving each and every one
God the Holy Ghost favors neither one the most
Together when we reach Heaven
Side by side we’ll meet the Host
Combined on this Earth we compose the human race
We can’t judge a man by the color of his face
We are each the same, no different from the other
Which was emphasized today when a black man called me
brother!
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