Hate

A bad day, or a good one depending on how you look at it to go to the Race Hate Partnership at Calderdale. Today is hollocaust memorial day and one of the organisers locally has just told me that Muslims are boycottting the event because of Gaza. That the BNP are threatening to disrupt the service and that the police are reporting an increase in antisemitic graffiti.
What can we do...
"Report it to sort it and we will support it."
Not a bad strap line given by a rap poet today.
Hate crime - need to deal with the hate.
Where does hate come from?
Too easy to say difference causes it.
"We don't have a race problem because we are all white here."
Too easy to say it's poverty or background.
In the bible we are told that hate came in when Cain envied Able.
Doesn't help finding another cause.
How do we deal with envy?
An end to it all this happens when as an individual I chose not to hate, I chose not to envy.