“I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you can get the lowest white man to believe he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” LBJ to Bill Moyers
Those who observe people who live with, or by, hate as opposed to those who live by love, however imperfectly they (or, rather, we) do so will agree with the first observation. Hate is a burden to bear. And yet, it is a burden which too many actually choose to bear. At least one ‘reason’, or excuse, is explained in the second quotation. Feeling inherently superior, probably especially when we know inwardly we’re anything but that, is something for which too many will give too much! Even if it is a burden, it’s one which they will carry proudly and resist most efforts to separate themselves from it. (I wonder…