hate and my part to play...your part to play

cliche' tho it may be....bear with me....
take two three year old boys...put them in a room together with a box of toys...
one child is white and borne of a culture that has had a long standing hate and fear of anyone non-white...
the other child is black and borne of a culture that has long standing defense system against those from the aforementioned culture...this defense system came to be after much persecution and injustice...the hate they feel came in riding the waves of their evil treatment...it rode in and staked a claim in many hearts...
these two children from such differing cultures sit in this room and play with the toys in the box...
they don't know each other's names but, no matter, they are playing together, enjoying each other's company...
the word tolerance has no place there because there is nothing to tolerate...they are simply two children playing...
getting along...
the past that took place before they were born, this past is nonexistent in their minds...makes no difference to them...
the hate that their parents and those before them feed and carry...this hate has yet to make it's nasty mark within these two children...they are pure and the evil that surrounds them is waiting for its chance...
you see, it's just a matter of time...these children will leave the room soon, say goodbye to one another...
they will go back to their families and they will be brought up listening and learning the way of their cultures...
they will take on the feelings of their people...even if they have nothing to back up those feelings other than the stories told to them from those who experienced and expressed the hate they feed...the hate will have won again...

hate sits and waits...it's very easy to be spread...one feels hate towards another and acts on that hate...the person victimized then takes on hate toward his persecuter and, if given the opportunity, will act on the hate towards another who represents the group from whence the persecuter came...the hate then is passed on and on...growing in strength...the hate becomes immersed within the cultures' mores and societal structure...the hate finds a home and grows...the evil wins again and again and again...
to rise above the hate, even at the hands of monstrous torment and persecution...this requires incredible strength, honesty and forgiveness...this requires a Christ mind...the ability to separate the evil from the vessel carrying it...from the one who would act out on it...there are examples throughout history of those who were able to do this...Buddha, Christ, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Immaculee Illibigaza, etc., etc., etc.,....to infinity...it is possible for us if it was possible for them...
but, sadly, too many succumb...much easier to give in to the hate...it takes a hold psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally...in so many ways....and it grows...because, we let it...because we don't wake up and take responsibility for our own part...we, each and every one of us, has a part to play...because we choose the easy way makes us as responsible for the evil in the world as those who blatantly committ evil against another...
think about that...hard to swallow isn't it...that you might have a part to play in the suffering happening across the globe, across the ages...
so i ask you...what are you going to do about it? what are we going to do about it?