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