Monday, May 4, 2015

A Nation's Propensity to Divide Comes from its Propensity to Hate

   More racially divided than in more than 20 years? Are we? A New York Times poll shows as much. And who are we to thank? The poster suggests it is not Barack Obama, Eric Holder or Al Sharpton.
   He found a way to turn it all on three people he probably doesn't like.
   Unfortunately, we always look to blame. Maybe that is part of why race relations are at their worst in a long time. When a society becomes prone to pick faults, it divides itself. Where there are two parts of the people, they start picking at each other, Democrats picking at Republicans and vice versa, white people picking at black people and vice versa, and so forth wherever two large groups exist.
   If you want to instill racial tension into a country, first instill the tendency to find fault and hate. More racially divided than in more than 20 years? Perhaps, we have just become a more hateful society, and our propensity to hate is showing.
   A nation's propensity to blame and hate equals its likelihood of splintering and dividing.

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