| Christmas spirit. It's all about love, | | | | had relationships with this not-of-your-group |
| compassion, friendship. But is it only a nice | | | | neighbor. So how can we really make a change? |
| wrapping paper? What's buried beneath the | | | | I'll tell you. I don't believe in "Thou shalt |
| nice words and greetings of the lovely | | | | love thy neighbor as thyself." It's too |
| Christmas cards? Do Christmas cards convey a | | | | idealistic. Too vague. Too unreal. I do |
| real message of love and caring or is it only | | | | believe in, "What you do not wish upon |
| a fa?ade, a mask, thick layers of make-up to | | | | yourself, extend not to others." Think of the |
| hide the rooted hatred that is there. White, | | | | difference and I hope you'll see for yourself |
| African American, Hispanic, Jews, Italians, | | | | what I mean. It's much easier to tell what |
| Muslims and the list goes on and on, and so | | | | you don't wish upon yourself than telling |
| is the deep rooted blind-hatred. Michael | | | | what "loving thyself" means. Love is in |
| Richards' display of hatred at the Laugh | | | | itself an enigma. Loving thyself, well, it's |
| Factory is contemptible. His remarks are the | | | | even more complicated. But when someone hurts |
| embodiment of racial hatred. Michael | | | | you, or offends you, that easily falls into |
| Richards, however, is not the problem. He's | | | | the category of things you do not wish upon |
| just a wash up comic (to use his own words) | | | | yourself. So let this guide you, in what you |
| who happened to give rise to the problem in | | | | think of others, in what you say to others, |
| an uncontrolled rage. The sad truth is that | | | | in what you do to others. Uprooting the |
| many people in America saw and heard Michael | | | | racial hatred is not something to happen over |
| Richards and inaudibly mumbled, "He's right, | | | | night. But it will never happen if you don't |
| he's right," and some even cheered. Many | | | | make the first step now. And now you know |
| people think the answer to all their problems | | | | how: Don't extend to others what you do not |
| lies in the destruction of their neighbor. | | | | wish upon yourself. |
| Eliminate the Blacks, there will be no crime. | | | | |
| Eliminate the Muslims, there will be no | | | | (c) 2006 Eran Sadeh. Struggling to make a |
| terrorism. Eliminate the Jews, there will be | | | | living with words, the most poweful tool on |
| more money for all. And it's so easy to think | | | | this planet. |
| this way, especially if you've never met or | | | | |