Is it Hate or is it Fear?

Originally Posted to 'the Fake Headlines' by Margie

If any of you peeked at my blog a few days back you know that I wrote in regards to gay bashing. I had received an email from a young lady that graphically described how her trans gendered brother died at the hands of hateful cowards. Now I have read about and seen on TV far too many examples of hate crimes but the horror of this young man's death has really stayed with me and I have been having a really hard time doing a follow up blog.

I would like for you to imagine, if you will, being locked in a glass room. Your family and friends are all milling around having fun, life continuing as though the real you does not exist, and though you can hear them speak to you, they do not hear your voice. That is the only analogy I can come up with to try and help you fully understand a transgendered person. The person they should be is locked within themselves and it is totally the opposite of what you see on the outside. They do not choose to be this way, it is how they are born.

None of us have had any say or control in our genetic makeup and yet there are those amongst us, maybe even someone you know, who deem that unless one fits a certain criteria their freedoms, rights, and very lives count for nothing.

If it were not so horrifically sad, I would laugh at the term "white supremest". Please tell me what is so pure about a race, that is really nothing more than the bastardization of every other race? I believe that is why we whites do not have any common distinct characteristics except for the fact our skin is light in colour. The very fact that some of our skin turns brown in summer and some of us burn is a loud statement in and of itself.

To fear what we do not know is normal. People of courage and maturity when faced with a fear will step out and learn about what ever is making them afraid. When they realize that their fear is unfounded, they embrace the difference and soon find that their heart, spirit, and lives have been enriched. Those that lack the courage to know their fear will hold that fear inside and each time they encounter that fear it builds inside of them until finally it is sparked by the anger of being afraid. Finally it just explodes they strike out and it is an innocent person who pays. They are powerless cowards who think in "mob mentality" mode because, it is very rare that you will find one on one hate murders.

How many more who are deemed "different" will be debased, terrorized, and murdered before people get the message? The colour of ones skin, where one goes to worship, or who one chooses to love, has nothing to do with who that individual is as a person. Who we really are is what is in our heart and what we put out to the world and those around us in everyday life.