Humans
United Against A Common Enemy
Now More Than Ever We Need Unity Not Hatred

You know folks, the things I’ve witnessed over the last sixty-seven years of my life seem to foretell a somewhat dystopian future for all of us.
We’ve suffered wars, genocide, racial and gender bias, hatred, and persecution, mass murders of our children, rioting, and this latest scourge, pestilence, which in the US alone has killed over 100,000 people.
With things around us rapidly disintegrating before our very eyes, we, the Human race, must quickly realize we’re the only ones who can save ourselves.
And if that is indeed the case, then I, for one, believe we may be doomed. If not doomed into extinction at least doomed to spend whatever time Human beings have left on this earth warring, killing each other, persecuting each other, and filling our lives with hatred.
Because you see, hatred seems to be the only base human emotion that appears to effectively motivate a lot of folks into taking unreasonable actions against their fellow humans.
Case in point. I’m going to take a step back, way back to before my time when the USS Maine blew up in 1889. To this day, the jury is still out on whether or not the USS Maine was attacked or suffered an accidental explosion.
At the time it didn’t matter one bit.
How do you whip up national fervor and promote a unified front of people willing to go to war? How do you provide American opinion a common foe to hate? You allow American yellow journalists to portray the Spanish as evil. You let these journalists fill American minds with details of Spanish cruelties dispatched against the downtrodden citizens of Cuba.
You teach the American citizens to unify their hatred against the Spanish, and you have the entirety of America willing to go to war seeking revenge for lost brothers.
Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!
What was American sentiment during WWI and WWII? Did the Americans love the German people at the time or was the entire country anti-fascist and anti-nazi? My grandparents used to tell me how much they and everyone else they knew hated the Nazis and the Germans and what they stood for.
Again, America united against a common foe by hatred.
After Pearl Harbor, there wasn’t a single American who professed forgiveness and love toward the Japanese. This unified hatred was so intense even Japanese American citizens were rounded up and placed in internment camps on American soil.
This hatred, cleverly wrapped up in disguised blankets of saving millions of American lives caused two detonations of nuclear weapons for the first and only times in the history of the Human race.
Hatred against a common foe. In war, some may call it patriotism, for there have been many true patriots who have died in conflicts throughout the centuries. But what I speak of is the general feeling of the noncombatants, who saw their sons and daughters come home in caskets with the American flag draped over it. And those whose children never came home.
They harbored a trace of bitterness and hatred for the offending race of people they attributed to their children’s death until the day they themselves died.
What’s going on today is the same kind of subdued hatred from either closet or blatantly outspoken white supremacists and Nazis who are counting on this nation’s inability to unite against a common foe.
Them.
Now, more than ever, this nation needs to stop hating and come together to fight the true enemy, the enemy tearing our country apart at the seams. It doesn’t matter what color you are, what your religious beliefs are, what your national creed once was, or your immigrant status. What matters is that you’re here now in what was once the greatest nation in the world.
You’re here and you can either make a choice to hate each other and perish as the real enemy sits patiently while we weaken ourselves to the point they can easily take over.
Or you can choose to stand together, unite in peace, and eradicate this cancerous growth.
No war like this will be over in minutes or hours. The damage we Humans have caused by our hatred of each other is enormous and spans several generations. But today is a great day to start. Today is a great day to stand side by side in a united front and say, “no more.” No more will we allow hatred to tear us apart. Now more than ever, Humans need to stand together in unity.
If we continue in the direction we’re headed, we may never be allowed the opportunity to do so.
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