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Humans are not born racist
By Melissa Martin, PhD
White men with guns killing innocent human beings because of hatred
fueled by fear. What do they fear? Loss of power and privilege. Loss of
life and liberty. Loss of being top dog. Fear of being treated like
they want minorities to be treated.
After 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas by a white supremacist,
President Trump announced in a speech “in one voice, our nation must
condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies
must be defeated.” Finally, Trump is publicly condemning white
nationalism.
“Nobody’s born racist; we all found it,” stated Christian Picciolini in
a 2019 interview for The Atlantic. Picciolini, a former violent
extremist, joined a neo-Nazi movement 30 years ago. “Picciolini now
runs a global network, the Free Radicals Project, where former
extremists like him provide counseling to others trying to leave
extremist movements. He spoke with us yesterday morning about the
mainstreaming of white nationalism, what it takes to de-radicalize
far-right extremists, and why the problem is metastasizing.”
Jewish humans, Hispanic humans, and Black humans are created in the
image of God—a colorless God. A God who came to earth in the form of a
Jewish man. White nationalists who hate a group of humans because of
race or religion are anti-God. They do not serve the God of the Bible
that I know. They serve their own made-up deity of prejudice and pride;
hatred and fear; violence and murder. The Apostle Paul hunted and
killed Christians before he encountered God on the Damascus Road. Then
he joined them, lived with them, and loved them.
Haters feed off of other haters. So white supremacists (white cowards)
gather in groups for false courage—the mob mentality. Scared boys
hiding behind Madison Grant and his 1916 book of fear called The
Passing of the Great Race. Purposeless people hiding behind Hitler’s
evil. Deranged humans hiding behind guns. Richard Spencer is an
attention-seeking narcissist with a seared conscience—a leader of
morally-bankrupt cowards. White humans are not superior to humans
of non-white skin colors.
I challenge each member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to mail DNA samples
to 23andMe and find out where their ancestors came from throughout
history.
Hate in Ohio
In 2017, Ben Glassman, US Attorney for Ohio’s southern district spoke out against the racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.
In 2018, 36 hate groups were tracked in Ohio, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
“Ohio law broadly defines hate crimes as criminal acts motivated by
prejudice or intolerance and directed toward a member of a gender,
racial, religious or social group. Ohio law does not, however, consider
hate crimes as stand-alone offenses. Rather, they are considered as
factors in determining penalties or sentences for other crimes. The
only Ohio statute that speaks directly to hate crimes is the “ethnic
intimidation” provision under the Ohio Revised Code, which prohibits
commission of the misdemeanor crimes of aggravated menacing, menacing,
criminal damaging, criminal mischief and some types of telephone
harassment, when done “by reason of” the race, color, religion or
national origin of another person or group of persons. The statute does
not currently include any specific reference to crimes motivated by
prejudice or intolerance with respect to sexual orientation or gender
identification,” according to a 2019 article on the Ohio Bar
Association website.
Hate in America
The SPLC, a U.S. non-profit organization monitors domestic hate groups.
There are currently 1,020 hate groups operating in the United States.
“Talk is cheap. People are dead. If Donald Trump is serious about
defeating white supremacy after Dayton and El Paso, it will take more
than a speech.” 2019, USA Today.
Melissa Martin, Ph.D., is an author, columnist, educator, and therapist. She lives in Ohio.
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