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thbobby

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30. Confronting Hatred
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 08:37 PM
Sep 2017

I believe in some cases hate is best confronted by being nonconfrontational and setting a good example.

I have a 70-year-old neighbor who I was trying to convince to vote. I asked him about Obama and he replied "I just think they should stay on their own side of the tracks"

I did not directly confront him. I just, over a several week period, told him of my black friends, my gay friends, what Obama had done to benefit him and our country. It is a work in progress. I do not believe he is a hater. He is just ignorant.

Perhaps where hatred is best confronted is churches, schools, homes of people with children. I live in North Texas and see well-disguised bigotry and hatred in all of these places.

It will be a long battle. A battle we have been fighting since before the Civil War. Can it be won? Perhaps so, perhaps not. But what kind of people are we if the battle is not waged?

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