Diversity Intolerance Just Plain Old Systemic Racism

A Message From The Publisher

[Love Your Neighbor] Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8 (NKJV)

 By Bobby R. Henry, Sr.

      As I was listening to a radio commercial this morning about lactose intolerance, I was thinking if there was a cure for different people’s intolerance.

The medical use of the term0 lactose intolerance includes an excessive sensitivity or allergic reaction to a medicine, foodstuff, or other materials, in other words for me, it meant a physical rejection.

As its core, intolerance, related to my thoughts, was concerning relationships between Blacks, Caucasians, Asians and Cubans; well frankly speaking, any other people than the people that I get along with.

How selfish of me to be so myopic and iron hearted.

Further into the commercial there was a remedy mentioned for those who suffer from lactose intolerance.

What cure could there be, short of role reversal, for the stiff-necked, RACIST, BIGOT POLITICIANS, and ignorant  individuals who refuse to embrace and try to systemically deal with their personal intolerance of the diversity of this country?

I wonder how many like me keep hearing this amplified voice saying, “Vengeance is mine says the Lord”, but what’s more dangerous than that is: how many will keep ignoring it?

I do believe that there is nothing new under the sun, and if it happened before it can happen again.

Hatred is as plentiful and freely given as oxygen; unfortunately, its by product is deadlier than a nuclear weapon, including a devastating fallout.

The world has seen what nuclear power and its fallout look like and yes, we survived that time.

So, I began to reason that if there is a cure for a sickness caused by an infiltration of an organism or whatever, then somewhere there is a cure for diversity intolerance.

I thought about the story in the Bible concerning the Tower of Babel. In this story, commonality of the same language almost caused the destruction of the entire world.

“[The Tower of Babel] Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.” Genesis 11:1

If sameness can cause that much destruction, why can’t diversity be a means to a beginning of a much-needed healing in this country?

Just as the scientists found a cure for the lactose problems by identifying the culprits, there is a medical book for curing the ills that effect man’s social imperfections – The written Word.

“[Their Conversion] For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.” 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NKJV)

The cure for any intolerance has to begin with understanding the effects of the intolerance on the body and then how the body behaves due to the intolerance.

As in lactose intolerance, the body produces a vile stench in the form of a colorless gas causing others to suffer when it is expelled from the body can clear a room, causing embarrassment to the  responsible person.

For those who suffer from diversity intolerance, please go to the Word and search for your cure, thereby eliminating that pungent offending odor that one cannot see, but believe you me, it sure smells!

In the words of The Message’

“Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the edge. I’m trying not to lose my head. It’s like a jungle sometimes’ It makes me wonder how I keep from going under”. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

“SANCTIFY THEM BY YOUR TRUTH. YOUR WORD IS TRUTH.” JOHN 17:17 (KJV)

 

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Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

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