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One more thing... and it’s not my idea, God separated out the nations at Babble and they will not live in harmony apart from Him. That doesn’t mean we don’t seek to lover our neighbor as ourselves - successfully, only with His empowerment, but it means ultimately there is no “peace on earth, good will toward men” apart from Him and a bended knee to His authority and His righteous standard and His ultimate sacrifice. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” What are you doing with God’s provision?

I had to read the article (horrors!) to find out who the title was referring to, Disney’s “Jungle Book” and King Louie is the jazzy monkey leader. I have read the original Jungle Book by the Nobel Literature laureate, Rudyard Kipling. I did not recall any such character there so, since I have no children, I guess I have an excuse here.

The simple truth is that while we all have pre-judgements (prejudice), we do not have to be slaves to them nor allow others to make us slaves to OTHER’s prejudice! I was an US Army brat and that is/was a good place to grow up in through the early 60s. Rank meant everything and religion and/or skin color meant much less to my parents and thus to me.

To this day, I will use ‘Yes Sir’ and ‘Yes Ma’am’ to any unfamiliar adult in any meeting of business equals or better. Yet, my pre-judgements will urge me to avoid mob conditions and night encounters where social conditions are negative.

While it hurts me personally to see how some use our society to punish the children for the sins of the fathers, I do prefer this to societies where the hunt for food and living takes precedence over ‘possible’ offense against a sense of self-esteem!

———the Washington State ferry system and seen old pictures of actual Indians. -——

I visited the Olympic Peninsula this year and visited a town on an Indian Reservation. It was a tribal town.

There was a very nice highschool with ball fields and all of that. There were lots of pep rally type stuff urging the teams on...... they called themselves the Red Devils

Maybe if we were more sensible, we would realize that it is the stereotypes themselves that make racial diversity actually diverse. Without ethnic differences, there would never have been any need to promote racial harmony – because there would never have been any reason to be anything other than harmonious

Never a truer statement has been uttered. Races are real, they have differences and it is largely because of those who insist we not only ignore these differences but even pretend they don't exist are most problems in race relations found.