Prejudiced People Come In All Forms!

Most of the items I choose to write about is the direct result of what I hear or see during the day, either at work or at home. At home I watch news, sports, political or historical channels and I hear many different points of view. At work through the years I have heard as many different views, but I tend to be surprised because in many cases the individual that makes the statement is a friend and their views catch me off guard. Prejudiced statements are one of the things that surprise me. The other day a friend and I were discussing bin Laden's  death and the statement was made, "They should ship them all back to where they came from. They are all terrorists." The, they, that was referred to, are Muslims. A debate ensued and the result was that they are bigoted, when it came to Muslims. This is no different, then wanting to ship blacks back to Africa, because they are criminals. Ship the Italian back to Italy they are all Mafia members. The Hispanics don't speak English and don't want to. Ship them back. People who think like that would have our country empty, except for the Native American Indians, in no time. The Muslims are not terrorists. A small percentage of them have perverted the religion and now they are being placed into one lump group. They are every bit American, those that live here, and like us in so many ways. They want peace. They want their children to grow up, be educated and have opportunities. They have dreams and ambitions. They want to be able to have their religions believes and practice it in their way. They hurt, emotionally and physically when attacked. They bleed when wounded. They laugh when happy and cry when sad. They are, in short human beings, just like you and me. We have to stop placing everyone into a category and one size fits all area, because we lack the depths within ourselves to judge people as individuals. Prejudice is created either by fear or lack of education. In many ways the lack of knowledge about each other leads to the fear. I have stated many times that the way to make every one's lives better, is through education. The next time you feel negatively toward any group, stop and take the time to get to know everything you can about them. Education, will relieve the fear and then we can all come together to tackles the problems that face all of humanity on this small planet, we call Earth.