This is dedicated to my friend Soulfire Jones, and all of my friends of all colors, races and creeds.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. Ronald Reagan
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
Samuel Jackson
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King
I happen to enjoy many of MLK's quotes and his speeches, and remember far too less of them well enough to memorize. Then again, words are words, quotes are shadows of the past, what really matters are that we remember the actions of those words, what they inspired at the time they were first spoken to the people who were listening and needing to hear them.
Which is a good reason to remind ourselves of the utterly fantastically ridiculous. The narrow minded, the stuttering hatred of the cowardly, and where from which it came. Remembering the past, inlightens the future.
"Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests."
David Duke
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr
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The past and the close past. As racism slowly and inescapably dies, there will still be a slight pulse, perhaps a zit or two that will rise up from time to time.
"Well, it — what it’s going to be here, it’s actually a biracial cookie. You’ve got three of the chocolate wafers, and then you’ve got the white vanilla cream — the cream…. And Kraft comes up with the Or-Bam-eo, the triple double-dipper." Rush Limbaugh
"We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them." Sally Karn Republican state senator from Oklahoma
"If we as Americans give forth respect and honorable humility, towards ending hate, we must first accept liability in respect to the fact that hate is taught, not bred into us, but fed to us by the spoonful by those who demand hatred lives. The only way to defeat that is to teach love and feed love by even bigger spoonfuls, perhaps by the truckload." Author of this blog
The Death of Racism: Inspiration for the Soul
To start out, I'm just going to lay down some great quotes from some of the best sources of equally important people. Not just positive quotes from civil right leaders, but from both sides of the hatred and the healing. It may appear I'm muttering hatred, but I'm not.
My main goal here is to remind us of where we came from, who we were and became. A direction of black hearted bearing in dark times, to lighting up the soul with hope and the dreaming of the day when equality isn't just a word or a dream, but a reality.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. Ronald Reagan
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
Samuel Jackson
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King
I happen to enjoy many of MLK's quotes and his speeches, and remember far too less of them well enough to memorize. Then again, words are words, quotes are shadows of the past, what really matters are that we remember the actions of those words, what they inspired at the time they were first spoken to the people who were listening and needing to hear them.
Which is a good reason to remind ourselves of the utterly fantastically ridiculous. The narrow minded, the stuttering hatred of the cowardly, and where from which it came. Remembering the past, inlightens the future.
"Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests."
David Duke
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr
"Well, it — what it’s going to be here, it’s actually a biracial cookie. You’ve got three of the chocolate wafers, and then you’ve got the white vanilla cream — the cream…. And Kraft comes up with the Or-Bam-eo, the triple double-dipper." Rush Limbaugh
"We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them." Sally Karn Republican state senator from Oklahoma
"If we as Americans give forth respect and honorable humility, towards ending hate, we must first accept liability in respect to the fact that hate is taught, not bred into us, but fed to us by the spoonful by those who demand hatred lives. The only way to defeat that is to teach love and feed love by even bigger spoonfuls, perhaps by the truckload." Author of this blog
Yeah that's right, me!
So the question remains, how do we end something that is taught in homes everywhere across America?
Do we favor race and color over influences? We can't keep it out of schools, or out of the minds of children exposed to it. Its in the music of this generation hidden amongst lyrics, it breaths in stereotypes, in sports, politics and even in the airwaves of broadcasting.
Racism is everywhere. Across the oceans even, found living strong and well in European countries, aimed directly at Jewish people or Muslims. Based on wars, historical remembrance, hatred thrives in times of cultural differences between countries or because of actions by a singular person.
The attack on the UK soldier by a Muslim in Britain, spore anger and hatred towards anyone of Muslim decent. Not all Muslims are intertwined with fanatic Muslims who view the wars in the middle east as part of an attack on them or their beliefs. Hence the reason for measures to take place against those who are spreading the hatred.
America slowly seems to be waking up, as we have an African American at the helm of the White House. While I don't care for Obama anymore, my change of heart is based on his work thus far. Mind you, I voted for him at his first election.
Unfortunately racism is plentiful in politics and is easily viewable in the way things are going. Racism and hatred is still alive, and for a long time to come it will continue to thrive. It will take time, as with anything else. Time will weather away at the heart of the beast, and with the time it will take to end hatred and racism, we will need to remain vigilant and remember that in order to defeat the hate, you must pour on the love twice as heavy.
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