Stamp Out Ignorance
This was originally posted on MySpace a couple years ago.
A couple years ago, a friend that was working with youth at the Malcolm X Festival in LA received hate mail from one of her friends telling her that she was racist because she was involved in the festival.
We sent emails back and forth and talked on the phone about it a few times. I decided that ignorance was the biggest reason that racism continues to exist today and also contributes to most of the other problems in the world.
I believe very firmly that there is only one race, the human race. I believe we are all cousins however distantly related. I also believe that whether you believe in evolution or a creation theory, both require a belief in one set of original parents and all the people in the world descend from that common ancestor.
I believe in this so strongly that I created a group, Stamp Out Ignorance, to combat ignorance and improve the world. I envision this group to spearhead in a lot of venues. I extend an invitation to all of you to check out the group, join, and become active.
I’m in.
If you need a slogan, how about, “Stamp out Ignorance, before Ignorance stamps out you!”?
I had someone tell me about ten years ago that in their opinion, white folks weren’t related to black folks at all because Adam and Eve never gave birth to any black children. They then went on to speculate as to whether black folks were even real people in God’s eyes, etc. It took me by such surprise, all I could do was shake my head and walk away. 😥
I’m not certain you want a Christian in your group. Most people of other affiliations, especially atheist, are convinced that Christians are willfully ignorant, so there’s no hope for them. Secondly, information has helped resolve many situations, but not all of them. A majority of strongly held “convictions” are emotionally, not intellectually, based. Thirdly, information in the wrong hands, can often be fatal. Look at history and the ingenious ways human beings that have gotten access to certain kinds of information, have used it to torture and kill. Included in the list of methods has been the atomic bomb. Changing the heart, I declare, is first on the agenda. I agree though, that a change of heart is most often accompanied by access to a profound set of information.
So, as you can see, I am very often not most agreeable.
It will be tough to stamp out ignorance because it tends to stamp and carry on pretty loudly itself.
One man’s ignorance is another man’s genius, but if you’ll have me I’ll join. :love:
I just joined. 😀
When it comes to people, there is not just one particular group that has all the troublemakers and overall crappy people in it. To put it bluntly, arseholes can come in all races. Perhaps that alone is a common bond. 😉
To participate in a public venue/event does NOT mean that you subscribe to the theme of that event.
I went to the Italian Fest to watch a good rock band play. Does that mean I am Italian or that I like Italians?
Its crazy that people want to associate so much by that STUPID phrase: “guilt by association”
A problem I find with racists I know, is that they don’t think they ARE racists. They think of themselves as just fine and everyone else has a problem. I wonder anymore what any well meaning groups/organizations are good for being that they tend to be empty of the people that really need to be there.
John, How do i join this group?