To my LGBT friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my female friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my white male friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Black friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Hispanic friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Native American friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Asian friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Christian friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Muslim friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Jewish friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To my Buddhist friends,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
To any of my friends I didn’t mention,
I am so sorry there is so much hate aimed at you.
Yes, there will always be attacks. As long as humans hate each other because of differences.
It’s not about religion, or sexual orientation, or race, or gender. It’s about hate.
It’s about hating that other driver who cut you off or drove like an idiot, which is us sometimes.
It’s about hating the person who cut in front of you in line.
It’s about hating that “bitch on the cell phone talking so loud.”
“Hate,” how many times do we all say it each and every day?
It’s about our own inability to understand the other person, to have compassion – empathy – for the other person.
To BE the other person.
—Louis Warfield
Flommist Louis Warfield is a very sad co-dependant white male who feels helpless to fix the hate against all of us. He is also a fabrication specialist who runs the award-winning Rhino Design Studio, “You dream it, we’ll build it.” Copyright © 2016 Louis Warfield. Image: Jews in Berlin, 1941.
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