I don’t think fascinates me is the right word. More like disgusts me, but I am always bewildered by racism and prejudice. I just cannot wrap my brain around it. How can one faction of people think they are more important than another, but history shows this to happen over and over again and will continue til the end of time more than likely.
When I think about races of people being exterminated my heart breaks. Doesn’t matter which race, any race of human beings being slaughtered for no reason except someone in a position of power decides they shouldn’t be here with the others causes my mind to try and figure out why.
African Americans for the longest were killed just because..someone held hate in their heart… someone was jealous possibly for whatever reason… someone wanted to fit in so they followed the lead…Daily, slaves were tortured, beaten, worked with no pay, killed without a reason and families were ravaged when a white man decided to have his way with the black slave woman. If the white slave owner thought he was better why would he defile a black woman bringing himself to her level in his mind? For a race of black men to not cause a scene and humbly continue working for the white master is the definition of courage. Courage to continue on obeying their masters orders without stealing, talking back or anything shows a spirit of courage I have never saw. Waiting for God to intervene while being subjected daily to horrendous things is mind boggling, but they did just that.
Then, we have the Jewish people being killed by Hitler’s orders. Thousands of men women, and children walking to their death with no one intervening and justice wasn’t a word that could be used. The fear that must have been off the charts is unfathomable to me. How do you explain to your children that you were given to protect what is about to happen? You can’t. The questions I’m sure they ask God as to why is this happening? All they had was faith and trust in God that His ways are higher than ours. Do you pray or curse? Or both? I cannot know how I would react.
These are just 2 groups of people that faced elimination for no reason but there have been many through the years. Rwanda is another. Ukrainian’s another. Then, we have the Indians slaughtered by European’s for their land. All of this while they were being taught by the Indians how to grow food on the land. Two-faced and back stabbers are two nice names for the killers of the Indians. There are many more without good reason. How do you rationalize this? How do you live with yourself? Not just the killers, but those who did nothing to help these people. You may not agree with the actions of other people, but when you remain silent on social issues such as these you are a killer as well and you will be questioned about your silence one day.
As I began with this post by stating how this behavior stirs my mind to find an answer, I never do, at least not one that makes any sense to me. To say these events fascinates me could be true I suppose because the definition of fascinates is to draw the attention and interest of someone. By all means, my attention is drawn.
When God Speaks 
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