My Facebook feed is constantly filled with post stating, “Racism was almost dead until (Fill in the blank).”  Unfortunately, I disagree with this statement.  Racism wasn’t dead; it was dormant and not on the front page of the newspapers.  It is true that while groups like the Ku Klux Klan have been made insignificant by most Americans, there are still hate groups operating in the United States, groups like the Neo-Nazi Movement, New Black Panther Party, Black Lives Matter, and the Nation of Islam.  Most of these groups are racial hate groups calling for the eradication or enslavement of other races or ethnicities that are different from them in skin color or religion.   The only requirements for membership are that you are the same race or religion, you hate the other race or religion, and are willing to kill or cause devastation to those different from themselves when called upon.

The only reason those groups are allowed to operate is because they have not been scrutinized by the press, and have been given a voice by the previousl administration.  Black Lives Matter was legitimized and given a voice by the previous President and invited to the White House.  Other groups like the New Black Panther Party and the Neo-Nazi Movement should be investigated by the FBI for inciting racially motivated hate crimes and should be shut down.  I believe the leaders should be arrested because they are inspiring many to commit acts of violence on their behalf.  No one wants to say it, but it is almost as dangerous as the Charles Manson cult of the 60s!

The only way to end racism once and for all is to confront it for what it is…a waste of time and effort.  It does not produce anything except violence.  Look at your kids on the playground — they are playing together not caring what race, ethnicity or gender a person is.  There is no racism in young children.  It is taught and does not come naturally.  We need to rise above this nonsense and remember that there is only one race, the human race.  We need to stop teaching and inciting racism.  We need to remember Dr. Martin Luther King’s words of judging someone by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.  Once we remember that and take those words to heart we can remove ourselves from the racism that exist and become a united society, and in turn can overcome anything that comes our way.

In unity, many obstacles can be overcome.  Hate groups fail to see the benefits of other people, hinder the ability to overcome their own prejudices, and fail to see the opportunities of the synergy we can have when we collaborate with others to overcome any problems we may encounter.  There are benefits to seeing past our prejudices.  As we learn to work together, we can overcome many problems that plague our planet like world hunger, energy substitutes, and education.  How many of those people have wasted their time hating each other, when we could have people working to become the next Neil Degrasse Tyson, the next Albert Einstein, or the next Walt Disney?

Let’s overcome our racial ethnic bias, come together and be one human race.  Let’s start solving the world’s problems instead of adding to them.  And let us all start becoming one nation instead of several factions living in a fractured nation.