“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States 1963-1968.
I think we have an opportunity to, “once and for all,” vent our prejudices until we individually and collectively come to realize that prejudice is the child of ignorance. As was stated before; “prejudice, put theologically, is one of man’s neurotic and perverted expressions of his will to be God.”
The mark of a man is how he treats a person who can be of no possible help to him, for all people smile in the same language. Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
Prejudices are often carefully taught, and once established they are strengthened by superstitions, old tales and lies; “for the essential corruption of racial discrimination is not that it is supported by lies but that people believe the lies.”
So, let us remove the stains of prejudices and racism and rid ourselves of these self-inflicted wounds. Perhaps, just perhaps, you may be thinking, well, the situation is as bad as I have ever seen, and if you think you really have no where to turn, remember what one of America’s greatest leaders said;
“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I have nowhere else to go.” Abraham Lincoln.
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