A friend of mine posted on Facebook that she had been the victim of a racial attack while walking across a parking lot to her car. She is Korean-American, and the attack came from a Caucasian man screaming insults out his car window. This bothered me. A lot. And not just because this woman is my friend and a wonderful human being. It bothered me because I couldn’t understand it.
I don’t know what you believe or know about reincarnation, but I believe and know that when we die, our bodies die for good, and our spirits live on, ascend, and are reincarnated into a future body and future life. Our spirits gain a wide variety of experiences, as we move through different lives that can have us living as one gender, one race, and one sexual orientation in one part of the world, followed by a life as another gender, another race, and another orientation in a completely different part of the world. Over millennia, we grow and develop a perspective that is naturally inclusive, as we have been a lot of people during that time. To be racist feels to me like hating myself. If everyone has been a lot of someones over time, how does racism still exist?
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