The comfort food of evil is fear.
There are three types of people in this world with a varying degree of mixture between the types.
There are evil people.
There are good people.
There are those in the middle that are neither.
The majority of people throughout our collective history are those that pack the middle way.
The primary goal is to be left alone.
To be insulated from the hot and cold weather of life.
Their choice is not to choose.
To maintain this choice, they have to believe in fear.
Evil is happy to provide the fear on which the fearful feed.
In America, this food is equality.
The founders of this nation were afraid to make everyone free and equal.
The fear was fed upon and made black people 3/5’s of a human.
The fear was fed when states declared they did not have to obey a federal government.
The fear was fed when the civil war fought to bind a nation as one failed to stop the fear of equality.
The table of fear was now set after the failure of reconstruction.
Reconstruction was that brief time when black people were given equal rights.
But the terror stalked the streets in white hoods, in whispers of protect your white women.
Hope was burned away by flaming crosses.
Middle America fed.
Middle America was comforted by their fear of the other.
Those people who live on the bad side of town are different from me, they told themselves.
We humans like to feel superior.
We like to feel we are doing better than others.
The fear-mongers know this.
The fear-mongers who profit from feeding the racial fears of this nation gather to themselves great wealth and power.
These fear mongers are not just in government, in industry, in boardrooms, but they’re in your home.
In your circle of friends.
They keep the heart of racism beating.
Once upon a time, the home of the racist in America was the Democratic Party.
But once President Kennedy and President Johnson pushed for the voting rights act, the Dixiecrats felt uncomfortable with the main course set out by these progressive liberals.
The racists wanted the old bone they had been chewing on since reconstruction.
Nixon and his election team saw an opportunity.
They called upon the racists to leave the Democrats and come on over the Republican whites-only picnic.
Since Nixon, that’s where the racists of America find their daily bread at the table of the Republican Party.
Trump did not create the menu that feeds fear in our nation.
He is the latest head waiter to take advantage of racial hate and hunger in our country.
Racism at its heart wants us to believe that other people are to blame for why we don’t have nice things.
Racism is a deflection of taking personal responsibility for why things are bad.
Blame the other guy.
I can’t be to blame for why jobs moved away.
I can’t be to blame for why wages are down.
I can’t be bothered to vote.
I can’t be evil, can I?
The Republican Party is happy to feed the fears of Americans.
It’s the easy thing to do.
It’s hard to get people to do the right thing.
How easy is it to floss your teeth every day?
Get enough steps in?
Read a book?
Talk to a friend?
Doing good is not easy because if it was, everyone would do it.
So here we are in a plague that is killing thousands every day.
Half the nation believes in the racism of Trump.
But more than half don’t!
Got to keep your eyes on the prize.
If it was easy to get to the brotherhood of man, everyone would do it.
Peace
DFrey
