“Hatred and racism are the euphoric emotions that fuel and sustain the ideology of white supremacy, violence, death and wars.” John Johnson II 03/12/26
By Dr. John Johnson II
The world is once again watching the Middle East drift toward a wider and more dangerous war. Israel strikes Iranian interests. Iran retaliates against American allies and regional targets. Gaza remains engulfed in devastation as Israel continues its conflict with Hamas. Missiles now speak where diplomacy struggles to be heard.
Yet beneath these military confrontations lies something deeper than geopolitics or territorial disputes.
What we are witnessing is the Curse of abominable Racism and Hatred—both are dangerous intersections of racial, ethnic, ideological, and historical hostilities linking the United States, Iran, Israel, and Palestine. The connecting thread is deep-seated grievance powerful enough to justify discrimination, retaliation, and ultimate violence.
Ironically, the United States often presents itself as a global defender of justice and human rights. Yet America continues to wrestle with its own legacy of racial injustice toward Black citizens.
For more than two centuries, Black Americans endured slavery, followed by another hundred years of Jim Crow segregation marked by lynching, legalized discrimination, and exclusion from economic and political life.
Even today, the remnants of those systems persist. Voter suppression laws continue to threaten Black political participation. Mass incarceration disproportionately imprisons Black men. Housing discrimination and redlining continue to shape inequality.
America condemns racism abroad while still struggling to confront its own systemic discrimination at home. This contradiction has become particularly visible in the Middle East.
Israel’s struggle with Palestinian resistance reflects decades of territorial conflict, displacement, and mutual fear. Iran has positioned itself as a fierce adversary of both Israel and American influence in the region. Palestinians carry generational grievances rooted in war, displacement, and occupation. Each side believes its cause is justified.
Each side carries historical wounds.
Each side sees the other as the aggressor.
History teaches that when racism and hatred hardens into ideology, diplomacy begins to fail. And when diplomacy fails, nations begin drifting toward the most destructive instrument available: war.
World War I was once described as “the war to end all wars.” Instead, it produced conditions that ignited an even more catastrophic global conflict only twenty years later. The lesson is unavoidable. Hatred does not disappear through violence. It deepens, mutates, and returns.
The hatred involving America, Iran, Israel, and Palestine represents one of the most dangerous geopolitical patterns of our time. This notion begs the question, “What will it take to eliminate America’s systemic racism towards Black people and others of color and move America’s democracy towards an inclusive and perfect Union?”
Unless nations confront their own prejudices, dismantle systems of discrimination, and replace vengeance with reconciliation, humanity will remain trapped in a cycle where hatred produces war—and war produces even greater hatred.
Given that wars are man’s most diabolic means of settling disputes, if a war is unavoidable, America’s ultimate objective of that war is to destroy the enemies’ will and capacity to ever seek to wage war again, which must include an unconditional surrender.
Or maybe any war to end all wars is just a myth! Yet this world must remain aware that AI may represent the pinnacle of man’s DESTRUCTION by its own genius.
YOU ARE THE JUDGE!
