Tonight I’m watching (again) the movie “42” where, in 1946, Jackie Robinson is signed to a contract by Branch Rickey and what he went through. We have also been watching the limited series on Emmett Till, another heart breaking example of the ability of some people to be incredibly cruel.

The really scary part is that it seems, if you really look at it, that NOTHING has changed in any substantive way since the Dutch West India company (yes, those very nice folks from the Netherlands who, in there time, were perhaps the most abhorrent of the slave traders) made huge cash out of human trafficking…

We hate because someone has a different complexion, we hate because someone believes in a different “supreme being” or maybe not a different being, but a different way to worship said being, we hate because there are those who don’t hold any being sacred, we hate because we don’t “approve” of the way two people love each other. We hate because we don’t understand the language someone else is speaking. We hate because the latest versions of “Der Führer” (and there are many) riles up the folks who think they will lose if someone else gets something. We hate because someone has the temerity to believe in evidence and facts. We hate because someone chooses to not believe in those same facts.

Why is it so bloody difficult to realize that we are all in this together, that it is a very short ride all things considered. Why have we not learned that we can’t “take it with us”. Why don’t we embrace that fact that what is good for everyone is what is best for us?

Once upon a time, at the end of the show, the closing line was “Remember, when everybody wins we all win”….so I’ll keep holding tight to the hope that one day the overwhelming majority will believe that…until then….

I’m waiting, waiting on a sunny day
Gonna chase the clouds away
Yeah I’m waiting on a sunny day

Hate sucks, Love wins….