After watching the movie Hotel Rwanda last night, my heart is still heavy. This is a must see. I am absolutely ashamed of myself for not being aware of the genocide that was taking place in Rwanda. I was doing nothing. Our church was doing nothing. Innocent women, men, children were being slaughtered. Their only offense was they were Tutsi in stead of Hutu. I swear I could not tell one from the other if you paid me a million dollars. The situations was eerily similar to what is happening in Kenya between the Kalejin and the Kikuyu people.
I was horrified, again, by the absolute hatred people can have for their fellow person. The atrocities done by one human being to another. How can this happen? This first thing that is needed is an identifier; such as a certain tribe, nation, religion, color, political party, etc. This will polarize people to different sides. Then bring on an offense of some kind between the two. Leaders rise up and take the charge spewing hateful, degrading, divisive speech toward the other. This hateful snowball grows as it continues rolling downhill.
What is the answer to this universal human defect? There is no tribe, nation, race, religion or people that is not guilty. How do we change? This has been repeated over and over again throughout the history of time. How do we really change? What will break us free from this cycle of hate? What can I do?
