Love past it all

 I think it’s time to move past the approaches we have been taking to racism and ethnic and religious discrimination. We speak out when one race hates another or one religion hates another or one ethnicity hates another.

 

But some whites hate other whites. Some blacks hate other blacks. You see my point. The focus becomes on the hate that divides us more than on the means of healing those divides.

 

Since the root of all of these problems is in the individual, the healing must come through each individual. How do we become successful loving people? How do we become compassionate and courageous lovers? How do we become the kind of individuals whose love is so powerful that hate and discrimination are no longer useful to us?

 

This kind of love does not just happen. It takes education, nurturing, practice, example and commitment. As a culture, we believe we just stumble into love, and there it is. No. It must be something a culture wants and is willing to commit to fully. This is thinking beyond hate and racism to the only genuine solution.