"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

Booker T. Washington

I don't know about you, but I am getting more than a little concerned about the use of race in what passes for our modern day America. Every time a person of one color does something to a person of another color, somebody of the offended color gets up to a national microphone to attack those of the offending color.

Just following all the colors is making me dizzy!

Booker T. Washington came out of slavery and lived in a segregated nation during the oppressive Jim Crow era. There were many people who hated him without even knowing him, simply because of the color of his skin. But instead of allowing that unfairness of life to slow him down, Booker T. Washington used it as a motivation to help end that unfairness. He didn't do it by wearing a T-shirt that proclaimed, "I can't breath", nor did he destroy and steal other people's property while chanting, "Black lives matter". Instead, with the help of black people and white people, Booker T. Washington responded to the unfairness of life with the simple goal of educating people of his race and encouraging them to get into business for themselves so that they could help bring an end to that unfairness.

And, most importantly, while he set this noble task, he was determined not to waste his time with hating those who were doing him wrong because he knew that the hatred of others always results in the belittling of one's soul.

God did not create us to be people with little souls. That was true in the days of slavery, it was true in the days that Christ walked the earth, and it is true for us now.

Hatred belittles the soul! The sooner we learn that lesson, the happier we will be.

"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."

I John 4:7-8, KJV