Often, members of one race “gang up” and speak of the flaws, ills and problems of other races.
(Related: The roots of racism)
(Related: Not a Race, but a Nation)
Often, these people do not belong to any particular race, but are themselves mixed with several other races without having knowledge of it. These people may isolate a single error of a limited number of members of one particular race at an estranged time in the past and try to pin that error as a defining factor of the entire race of people at all times. For example, they may highlight an incident where a group of black men attacked and robbed a business and say “black people are criminals”.
Now think how unfair and ungodly it is to paint that stereotype to all the hardworking and earnest black people in our world today. Many of them even give to charity and help people of other races. And was there never a case of people of another race carrying out an armed robbery?
What happens when people of your own race attack and try to harm you and people of another race defend or rescue you? What happens if one day you find yourself in a serious jam and a member of another race helps you out of it? Would you still be a racist?
(Related: Racists are narrow-minded people)
Many wars are fought between people of different races and tribes because of physical differences. Instead of teaching people about Jesus and the Power of the Christ, we often choose to attack and destroy them. Jesus, didn’t destroy us, even though we were not of his own race. Instead, He paid a price we could not pay. And He teaches us that we are no better off than the people we judge until He comes into our lives and hearts. That my friends, is the reality of the situation; and it is why racism is stupid.