Honor proudly raised his chest.

I’m a temperate person known to be strong

I hear a train whistle in the distance. 

Rickata tic tic

Its easy to handle unrequited love

When it’s winter, we still think of summer 

After a few conversations about the previous post, I realized that the subject wasn’t covered as thorough as needed. Words are placeholders for concepts that we feel. A single word can be ambiguous and have broad interpretations. Take Love for example; we say to love our neighbor and yet no one is totally infatuated with every neighbor. There are degrees to it and the broad application is different than the close personal one. Even on a personal level there are those we love to spend a little time with and those we hate to be without. There are sensual, practical, and ethical perspectives. We can love foods, theater and certain crowds. So using the word love in a negative sense will require the same clarifications. It is easy to accuse a person of having no love and make that person look bad. But is the hate accusation justified? It depends on the type of love shared, the offense and the expectations of the individuals.

The word racism is one of those catch all words too. Some throw out the fallacy that there is still racism in America. But this requires a clarification since all humans are of the same race.The only real racism that exists comes from environmentalists that want population control. They think the human race is the scourge of the planet. This would be racism in the strict sense. When we talk about discrimination, there has to be a clarification also. It is smart to discriminate; it is a part of our makeup as humans. If someone has hurt us, we certainly will want to avoid letting that person do it again. Certain areas of cities have higher crime rates. We have the ability to distinguish the difference between what is bad or good for us. This is the action of discriminating and being discreet in what we do. We do this with behaviors, locations and how people look. It is wise to avoid the person who is in a bad mood or has a history of bad behavior. But using our discriminate abilities toward things that aren’t a threat in any way or to exclude people without reason is where it can go wrong.

To say we need to eliminate discrimination or the false concept “racism” would be the equivalent of saying we need to eliminate greed or hatred. As long as there are humans together, discrimination will be used improperly at times. So will love, hate and all other forms of human passions. But that doesn’t make it the rule. Thankfully, the time of government sanctioned segregation by skin color of schools, buses, housing and bathrooms is over. But we still associate with those of like characteristics. Those who like certain music, sports, etc..We still have to deal with people who hurt us and exclude us. There will always be people who push the limits on treating others right. We can be too judgmental at times too. But to accuse discriminate people of racism and hatred while burning one’s own town, murdering and robbing one’s own fellow citizens, just doesn’t make sense.