If you google the term “hate groups” you will see a list of groups considered supremacist, separatist, or racist. Many of these groups have extremely loyal and very dedicated members. They believe very deeply in their creed and mission, which is basically to separate themselves from others they consider either a threat or inferior.
Racism comes in all shades of colors and races. It has been a major issue ever since historical records were kept. In many cases nations and governments have legally sanctioned it. Why do you think one group of humans could conjure up so much hate against another group?
Since so many racist and anti-racist organizations believe very deeply and at times militantly right about their mission, there can be no way all of them can be right, or wrong. It simply means that there are different degrees of right and wrong according to the believer.
I sometimes try to understand where such hate comes from, but pure hate has no rationale. Revenge, different from hate, is what people use to fight against those they feel have perpetrated something against them.
When you are abused you want to fight back against those who hurt you. It is almost as though you want an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. “If you hurt me I want to hurt you back.” These human responses I understand, but still, in my mind two wrongs will never make a right.
However, when you look at racism in America you have to address the building blocks that formed this nation. Legally sanctioned racism was imposed upon Native Americans, Africans Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Women, Gays and other groups that did not fit the Anglo majority at the time this nation was being formed.
This level of hate was not generated by an act of revenge or payback. It was hate for the sake of hating, with the sole intention of causing others to suffer. It was one race taking unfair and unearned advantages over another for the sake of personal gain. Still those who did these horrible acts felt justified in doing what they did, otherwise the United States of America would not have been formed, not as it was.
Even so, I still go back to the point of what is right, and what is wrong. When you see major corporations and top-level government leaders practice racism and even endorse it, are we to believe there are simply 360 degrees of right and wrong in the overall scheme of things?
Certainly the majority thinks they have a right to do what they do, as was the case of the slaughter of the Native American Indians or the enslavement of Africans. These people had something the Anglos wanted and were willing to take no matter what. The Native Americans had the land and the Africans provided a source of slave labor. Killing them and placing them in bondage was not even considered inhumane, it was merely considered a means to an end.
Still, how do we justify right and wrong when culture is basically determined by a consensus of the people? If the majority gets what they consider to be right, what does morality have to do with the final results?
Although looking back on history I do believe that most people living in America today believe that the treatment of the Native American Indians and the slavery of the Africans was evil and in every classification, DEAD WRONG! Most believe that the slaughter of the Jews during the Holocaust was dead wrong. Rationally most know discrimination in any form is morally wrong.
However, what we’re currently facing is the terrible aftermath that hate imprint upon a society. It is indelibly etched in the soul of our nation. Although those actual days and accepted practices are long gone, in most cases, the habits and behaviors people learned will not easily go away.
In order to rid a society of such ills, individuals will need to check their hearts and purge such unwanted things from their behaviors. Human beings are unfortunately creatures of habit and a product of their indoctrination.
If you were taught to hate then more than likely hate is a part of your being. If you were taught to discriminate then that too shapes your personality. A person must look deeply into their soul and determine if traits of racism and discrimination are something they wish to continue. If not they must intentionally and purposefully purge such practices from their being. They must regurgitate what was fed to them and retained as a behavioral practice.
In the end I do not believe there are 360 degrees of right and wrong. There is only right and wrong. Yes, there is yin and yang, but they, too, are opposites. One is the light and the other darkness. The two are not any more compatible with each other than fire and water. Just because people make choices to practice things that are wrong does not make them right. Simply because the majority agrees about something does not make it right.
Now that we have reached this age of enlightenment there are a lot of things wrong that we have accepted. Part of that was because we accepted darkness as our mode of living. We can no longer hide behind such dark clouds in ignorance.
There are no 360 degrees of right and wrong. Right is right and wrong is dead wrong. You must search your heart and soul and make that determination. Should you decide to remain in darkness, then that is a horse of a different color. FYI!
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