Indifference
Race haters believe they are the majority when they are not.
Who are the majority of people in the world?
It is the Indifferent.
The indifferent do not react the world over unless they are individually annoyed.
They will sit on their hands.
They will bind their feet.
They will blind their eyes.
They will tune out the noise.
They will box in their hearts.
They will shuffle their morality, which keeps them from any sense of responsibility.
Not until they are personally devastated will they take action.
Oddly enough, when annoyed, the Indifferent split almost down the middle on which side they will take up.
Vanilla versus chocolate.
Democrat versus Republican.
Just a tick less will become fascists as anti-fascists.
Indifference.
The Jewish genocide proved the power of the indifferent.
A nation, a world, the human race calmly sat by while millions of real people were put to death.
Their response was to do nothing.
Not in my backyard.
Until it was in their backyard, and their sons were killed at Pearl Harbor.
Not until then did we, as Americans, say we better put a stop to hate.
Indifference.
Charles Dickens wrote in A Christmas Carol how Father Christmas was warning Scrooge, the Indifferent, about Humanities' two children.
Want and Ignorance.
Want is the easier of his two children to care for.
Want needs, and once those needs are filled, hunger, shelter, comfort, free from fear; Want won't cause Humanity trouble.
Ignorance, however, will always be the root of evil.
Ignorance, both by accident and especially on purpose, is the cancer in the soul of humanity.
Ignorance will brush aside the milk of human kindness.
Ignorance only sees itself.
That is until they are personally annoyed as a consequence of its inaction.
To paraphrase MLK, he said he would rather deal with evil because you know where you stand.
Indifference will wait on time.
Putting off doing what's right.
Until time runs out.
That's the goal of indifference.
Doing nothing.
I'm also reminded of what that quiet voice keeps asking all of us.
Love reminds us that we all need to do more.
There are no alternatives.
There is no choice.
If you hear the voice of love, it asks us all to do.
To do right.
To do it now.
To do it without hesitation.
To stand, to clap, to raise our voice, and never be silent.
Silence is just as evil as hate.
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby