HATE

Posted on by michellethurman2344

I just read through quite a few comments about the incident with the boy and native American man; so much hate and twisted perceptions. They view thirty seconds of a video and think they know the whole story. There were several videos of this incident, each showing a different angle. The media immediately began spouting poisonous statements about the boy and now he, his family, his home and his school are under attack.

Such a sad commentary on our society of today. There several different groups present in Washington DC on any given day of the year; each enjoying and exercising their freedom to gather in our capitol and take a stand on whatever they believe is important or of value. Both these groups were doing that and from what I have read neither group truly felt hostile to the other. If left alone it would be an incident that would be left behind by both sides, and dealt with by each in their own way. But in today’s America there are so many who feel it necessary to start trying to foment hatred and anger, threatening deadly violence and harm to any who has offended them and their opinions about whatever has taken place…even when it isn’t any of their business.

I was reading in Luke 6 this morning and read a verse that describes so many in our nation today. From the Phillips translation: Luke 6:11 “But they were filled with insane fury and kept discussing with each other what they could do to Jesus.” ‘Insane fury’ so aptly describes what happens every time something like this comes up in the media. People start plotting horrible acts against people who have done nothing to them; not harmed them in any way, but have just expressed or experienced something that some don’t like or don’t agree with. Our elected leaders get hounded out of a restaurant, or get hateful mail or words pointed at them, and those who disagree with them call them fascist not because they are tyrants but because we can’t have two opposing views in politics anymore.

Everyone wants to blame every one else and they do it in language that is horrifying. How can you justify a threat to shove a young boy into a wood chipper head first?  How can you justify stirring up such violence that he and his family are no longer safe in their own home? Or that his school felt it necessary to shut their doors for a time for fear of someone doing something rash? This is not the way that civilized people behave, but we have become uncivilized. We are reverting to a barbarism that many of us thought was long dead.

It makes me ashamed of the people in my country; and then I despair for the future of my country. So many of these people want to blame President Trump for the climate of violence in this country, but it has not been the president or his supporters that I have heard issuing all these threats, or getting violent because they didn’t agree with someone. This hasn’t come from him. It comes from us; from those who resort to violence instead of either keeping their noses out of other people’s business or learning to deal with disagreements in a civilized manner, and it comes from those who have stood by passively and allowed this kind of brutality to become acceptable. We are all to blame and we are all responsible for fixing this.

It starts with a Native American man beating his drum showing respect for a Catholic boy exercising his freedoms in our capitol and a Catholic boy returning that respect. It starts with everyone recognizing that they weren’t there and they don’t really know what happened, so leave it in the hands of those who were. Man and boy can meet their differences with respect when other people stay out of it. Why is that so hard?

So, I am not going to put my faith in the people of my country because too many of them have shown how immature and barbaric they truly are; I will put my faith in God who knows every heart better than it knows itself and in Whose Hand lies my future…all my tomorrows are in His keeping.
And, hopefully, others will rise up and do the same; turn to God and seek His solution for all the trouble in our land. Only He has the answers; only He can be trusted to bring us safely through to the other side of this madness.

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Published by michellethurman2344

I was born in California, but both my parents were born in different areas of rural Oklahoma. My father grew up on a small cattle ranch and my mother grew up in the hills of eastern Oklahoma near the Ozark Mts. Both were born in the 1920's when Oklahoma was still more a part of the 1800's than the twentieth century so I like to say I was born of parents who were the last generation born during the old west. Their old west roots had a huge impact on my childhood. I spent the first three years of my life on my Granny's chicken farm. She was my father's grandmother and she owned 60 acres of alfalfa which she rented out and lived on three acres of barnyard where she raised chickens. There was some electricity, but no indoor plumbing outside of a faucet in the kitchen. The toilet was down the boardwalk in a small shed...in other words...an outhouse. The shower was a room under the water tank in the pumphouse. Granny's little three room house was the only painted building on the property. Everything else was raw, unpainted wood including the two room house my parents lived in. And I loved living on that little farm where I pretty much had free run of the barnyard and sometimes even wandered into the fields surrounding it. The town where I was born is along the Colorado River in the middle of the California desert and across the river from the Arizona desert and while we did live there for the first 12 years of my life, we moved a lot due to my father's employment. He was a big equipment operator and we moved to where the work took him, but usually only six months of the year then we moved back to our hometown. We moved to Northern California in 1958 and I have lived here ever since. I am a mother, a grandmother, have one great-grandchild and recently retired. I am divorced and now live with my youngest sister. My sisters and I like to cruise and take road trips. I am enjoying my life.

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