daninthelionsden
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Racism isn't just God hatred. It can be used as an easy out for those who feel left out, for whatever reason, and look for any scapegoat. I was raised in extreme racism and it affected me. When with "family" I expressed racism. When with other whites who were racist, I expressed racism. Be badly abused, I looked for ways to fit in. Even abusers can sometimes be appeased if you find a common "foe". This was cowardly of me, but I needed what I thought was family. I tried to date a Black girl, but was ridiculed into backing out. I made Black friends, but kept them away from "family". At work, at the refinery, the Blacks showed me the bricked over windows of the plant cafeteria where the Blacks had to go around back and get their food passed to them because they weren't allowed to go in.The atrocities you mention are all the same because,
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker. Pro.14:31
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker. Pro.17:5
therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.Jas.3:9
Do you see what I'm saying? The ungodly think "racial" hatred is the problem. It isn't. The problem is people hate God.
I continued this double life well up into my 40s. My daughter wanted to date a Black guy and all I could think about was how we would be ostracized by "family, co-workers, "friends" and/or neighbors. But after going on disability and realizing the family I was born into was only abusive step-family, I felt free to reassess myself, my life in who I had projected vs who I was inside. After being baptized a change came over me to see hearts not skin. I apologized to my daughter and said if she still wanted to date the Black kid, I was more than fine with it. There reasons other than hatred for racism. It can be cowardly fear like mine.