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2seaoat wrote: I've always despised racial prejudice...at least since I became aware of how rampant yet covert it is.
Most of our family weddings and friends weddings have family members who have spouses of different races. It is amazing how far we have come, but for me it was this spiritual thing that happened to me in Birmingham Alabama after the little girls got killed in church and I listened to my relatives in my Grandmother's large kitchen......I just listened, and from that moment on I understood that hate is usually fear, and how could somebody hate little girls my age at that time, and how could anybody blow up little girls.......It was an important time in my life........Vector would not have understood.......I would have been listening to him give his two cents worth.....hate and prejudice in the end is simply fear......fear is for children and cowards.....not for folks who can sleep without a night light, and laugh about the boogie man.
I think fear is a small part of hate. People simply don't like people who are different or unfamiliar. I was reading last night about Joseph Goebbles and how much he hated the jews. He and his wife killed their six children when the Russians came rather than let them live in a society where they might be influenced by other propaganda or races.