Racism is not the solution to racism! I tried that and it doesn’t work. This kneejerk response may feel good in the moment and even seems to be right and justified, but in the long term it eats away like a poison. Because of this the biggest disaster of racism is not racism itself; it’s the way it can turn you into a racist. Hate and bitterness will always lose.
When a person begins to hate because he or she has been hated on, the result, every time, is a heart of bitterness. Bitterness makes you ugly. Bitterness will destroy your children. Bitterness makes unattractive and nurtures a life of ungratefulness towards God. This hardening of the heart is also a poison that will wreck a person. The danger of racism-driven hate is that a person can become like the people they are angry about in the first place. This leads to an insidious downward hate spiral where everyone loses. Hate always loses. Love will always win.
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