Growing up in
America’s south, I saw it first hand. It was
important for whites to maintain their status.
Whenever our “maid”
came to weekly clean up our house. she must come to
the back door—always. Whenever they
boarded a bus or any kind of transportation, negroes
had to sit in the back row. They could not sit near
a white person, segregation ruled. And in the biggest
hippocratic act of all: one Sunday a year our church
celebrated ‘ecumentalism’ by inviting blacks to visit
with us—and were ‘allowed’ to sit on the back pew!
Yes, discrimination was
real. I saw it as a child—and wondered why, but
accepted it as just the way things were. Our
family didn’t talk about it, but as I grew older I came
to see it as pride and prejudice fighting a never ending
Civil war—not against negroes, but white against white;
one wanting to not let go of their rule over blacks, the
other seeing the evil of it and willing to fight and die
to free the slaves. So, yes it exists—even to the
present day.
There is the Jewish side
of things as well. Hitler wanted his master race
to rule, which led to extermination camps and
holocaust. It was quite easy to enlist others who
thought the same, and their conscious was seared
to justify it. For what one side thought, it also
existed in the other as well. Without recognizing
it, hatred reared its ugly head to produce another civil
war all over again.
To this day, how many blacks hate whites,
ignorant of the fact that it was whites (mainly
Republicans) who fought and died to do away with
slavery? How many blame innocent whites for their
misfortunes, when the root cause was not them,
but a deep-rooted resentment of God for making their
skin the color it is. Michael Jackson spent
millions on cosmetic surgeries to remake his nose
and lips look like Elizabeth Taylor’s, then wore masks
to cover up the botched mess! Never satisfied....