The Idiot's Potion

[Kevin J Bates Jr]

Hate is the idiot’s potion which allows him to hold fast to his ignorance
It is simple for the simple to say “I hate,” because hate costs them nothing

No involvement
No effort
No time

To know someone costs bits of yourself
And to love someone may cost everything

I once heard a white man say—I hate all blacks
A black man—I hate all whites
A woman—I hate all men
A man—I hate all women

…idiots
Fools all

Then, the word ‘all’ is beyond a single person
One person can never know all of anything

Least of all,
People

It is a cop out
A weakness
A victory of ignorance set to blind the idiot’s eye
And what can blind a man like ignorance
And holding pride in ignorance

Love is a fact
Hate is an oxymoron

The morons’ oxygen

You can never fully hate what you don’t know
But once the effort is made to know,
That which you truly know is hard to hate

You may not like, may not agree
You will always, always, respect
The ignorant lack respect because they lack knowledge

Lack of knowledge;
The core of ignorance

Take the lesson offered by the common red running though the veins of all mankind
We are all we
And we are all people