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15 décembre

My thoughts on Prejudice and intollerance

This morning I opened my emails to find an email, which was promoting racial profiling listing a long line of terrorist acts.

I was really saddened about it - especially since I care about the person who sent it and love her sense of humour and wit. I responded with another longer list of horrible acts that were done by all sorts of sick people with a variety of reasons involved - basically it all stems from misguided people that are either intolerant or damaged by life that perform such evil acts - and blaming a larger group for what a small group does is wrong and in a separate email as an afterthought to make her understand that it wasn't a personal attack but that I disapproved of what she was forwarding me and others - most probably without looking at the big picture.

 

All the hate will continue unless a conscious effort is taken to try to tolerate others differences, stop promoting and ignoring the propagation of hate and thereby allowing it to continue and educate others to try and get them to see that all life is sacred and precious) The diffences of people is like  adding some flavouring to make a meal taste better. (If we had to eat the same thing every day that would be pretty dull and it is the same if every person were the same. - Very, very dull and boring!)

If we hate, attack and try to destroy other people because of their skin colour, religious beliefs, or blame entire groups of people for extremist acts we are doomed. If one group of people are eliminated for whatever reason the it has been decided to hate - then after that group is gone - of course - with this mentality - another group to hate must be chosen because this twisted mentality has to have someone to hate. We would eventually keep eliminating until no one was left. And there would probably be only one very angry person left that would die alone.
I'm so far from being perfect and I often have to correct myself internally when I start judging groups or even individuals harshly. I would like to go beyond all that. I have mixed thought about posting this as I am so far from perfect and have many stupid moments of judging and anger but I do feel I needed to express what I feel about the subject because if even one person reads this post and is impacted in a positive way then who knows maybe they may turn around and add a positive influence to someone else and so on...
I just wonder if we will ever learn.