Yes, racial hatred is very, very bad. Since your schools will likely gloss over this horrendous time in history, allow me to give you a brief lesson.

The ‘cultured’ civilisations discovered Africa, and other places where people with a different skin colour lived. Since their society was different from the ‘cultured’ people, the black people where clbumed as ‘savage’ and ‘ignorant’. This is known as hypocrisy, as the white people were much more savage and ignorant than the tribes ever were. The white people forced their ideals and religion onto the tribes, and then committed the most abhorrent crime imaginable. Slavery. Many black people were forced to wait hand and foot on their new white ‘masters’

The common view was that the culture you belonged to was ‘right’, and all others were ‘wrong’. In the old days, racism was prevalent everywhere.

Gollywogs and black-face are remnants of that appealing time in human history.

Unfortunately, there are still some groups who view black people as beasts, most notably the KKK and Westboro baptist church. These people are bad men, and should be scorned. You may even hear children in your clbum saying bad words which demean other races. It is likely not their fault. These children have been tainted by their bigoted and evil parents.

However, things are looking up. Soon, America may even have it’s first black president! Martin Luther King once spoke of a time when Black and White children could walk together without fear of retribution. That time has not quite come, but the world is well on it’s way to achieving it.

I’m glad to see you celebrating the Olympic Victory by a Jamaican. Truly, it is the children who shall lead the way.