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Path Toward Peace - Step Two
(Link for previous post in this series) Eliminating Racism Do you practice racism? Here’s a definition of racism: belief in racial superiority: the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior. It might be good to define prejudice, too:
opinion formed beforehand: a preformed opinion, usually an unfavorable one, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings, or inaccurate stereotypes. I feel we all have to be rigorous in self-examination concerning tendencies toward racism. It’s an ingrained behavior, driven deep by ages of irrational action. Ever been faced by any of these situations? * Your child wants to marry someone of different color. * You are asked to work closely with a person of different color. * Your partner was formerly involved with someone of different color. * You find yourself in a situation that demands you live for an extended time with people of different color. If you haven’t had to face those situations, I urge you, with an open heart, to imagine you are experiencing them. *** How do you honestly feel? One factor that clouds this whole issue is the behavior of people who identify with their skin color—acting in ways that make them feel exclusive. It’s going to take a phenomenal commitment to rid our planet of this illness. It will take genuine love, extreme patience, true humility, consummate tact, sound initiative, mature wisdom, and deliberate, persistent, and prayerful effort. Also, recent thinking has made the idea of separate human races a distinctly non-scientific viewpoint. Spiritual Quote: “Racism, one of the most baneful and persistent evils, is a major barrier to peace. Its practice perpetrates too outrageous a violation of the dignity of human beings to be countenanced under any pretext. Racism retards the unfoldment of the boundless potentialities of its victims, corrupts its perpetrators, and blights human progress. Recognition of the oneness of mankind, implemented by appropriate legal measures, must be universally upheld if this problem is to be overcome.”
The Universal House of Justice, 1985 Oct, The Promise of World Peace (Read the next post in this series)
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