Race-baiting is a soul-suspending instigation of hatred, evil, violence, destruction. It is all over the right-wing airwaves.

Some of it is clever, manipulative and deceptive. Some of it is white-hooded and blatant.

It is darkly ironic that those standing behind a cloth flag are sometimes the greatest enemies of its symbolized values. Anyone who traveled through or who lived in the South forty or more years ago, knows what I am talking about.

One must be profoundly unhappy with oneself or one’s station in life, or simply be evil or ignorant, to stir up trouble for personal or political gain. The karma of the hate-monger can be as severe as a brain tumor. There is no slyness which goes undetected by one’s heart.

When one’s soul turns away from one, one has, indeed, reached the outer edges of humanity. Beyond that point, huddle the dwarfs of the spirit. Oblivion lies beyond the withered heart.

– Raphael O’Suna,   Haiku