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They Told Us To Hate, Part I

The told us to hate all people who were born with real pale skin, as if lacking pigmentation was like an original sin. Though these people had done nothing, they cried out,”Look to the past! These people killed and they had slaves, So we must hate them all, and fast!” But folks are individuals, free to choose what’s right and wrong, so how can they be hated for actions done by people long gone? Would you throw a man in prison for something his grandfather did? When did guilt become genetic, to be saddled upon the kids? And what color of human kind didn't own slaves at one time? Wouldn’t we have to hate them all if we’re to think upon these lines? And the worlds greatest murderers were Ghengis Khan and Mao Ze-dong, does that mean I should hate Asians, and place the blame on every one? Yet they all still keep saying it, and to me it makes no sense, not to mention it would cost me a boatload of my best friends. I won’t hold folks responsible for what was done at a past date, by people who are now long dead, I will not be told who to hate. Then they told us we should hate all human beings who are male, proclaimed that we all were toxic, and everything we do would fail. Somehow half of the human race now was not supposed to exist, unless we would neuter ourselves, then they’d ‘allow’ us to persist. But masculine and feminine are older than humanity, and to ignore evolution is just blind stupidity… I mean look at the great buildings built, it was done mostly by men, and soldiers who protect us all, overwhelmingly male again. If they’re a toxic threat to us, then someone please answer why those hated males will risk it all and for their families will die? Why, if they are horrible, do some women try to transform their bodies to male facsimiles, if men are all to be scorned? The same people who despise us think that we all should jump for joy when some mentally ill woman tries to declares themself a boy. I don’t think I will demonize half of the bloody human race, the masculine is quite sublime, I will not be told who to hate.... CONCLUDES IN PART II.

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Date: 6/18/2019 9:31:00 PM
LOVE this message. So true!! ... The sins of the fathers are not to be visited upon the sons. (Conversely, their merits extend to the 10th generation). By the way, do you see what just came out about Martin Luther King the other day, about his abusive sexual habits? Guess they'll have to tear him apart now --- fat chance, eh?! Washington, they'll pillory. King Jr., they'll give a pass... And so it goes... Great write, David. Best wishes, Gershon
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David Welch
Date: 6/18/2019 9:45:00 PM
Oh, I wouldn't worry too much. He'll be a hero thirty years from now, then a villain thirty years later. Each generations will misjudge in its own way. Rinse and repeat.

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