I was amazed!
After listening to the hate being spewed in Charlottesville I was amazed to hear it on my own Facebook timeline.
“We have to get rid of them. They are dangerous and we don’t want them near our children!”
I tried to help; “If they aren’t bothering you, why must you bother them? Why don’t you try to learn from them instead?”
More advice came pouring in through the comments: “Keep your distance.” “Run!” “We know a guy …”
Why? Because they are different? Because we don’t understand how they live? Or because we think we have more right to be here than they do?
In Charlottesville the people are making these statements about other human beings.
On Facebook, these comments were about wasps.
Today I am talking about the insect.
Tomorrow it may be the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Listen to your words people, our children are listening and watching.
And repeating.
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