This afternoon, one of the most terrible images i have ever seen was displayed on my colleague's email. It was a newspaper clipping of the 1998 racial riots in Indonesia that had hundreds, thousands of chinese indonesians tortured, raped and killed. There were portrait pictures of the girls and next to them, were the snapshots of them being abused ( its doesn't even come close to describing it) and killed in the most inhumane manner. I almost puked when i saw those pictures. Even now, i don't have the appetite to eat. What brings these people to kill and torture can only find its roots in jealousy, hatred for someone different, and fear. Where do these emotions spring forth from? Why do they hate so much? Jealousy may be one reason, but does it constitute the torture of someone else who has in no way caused harm to the other party? Within all these conditions, racism rears its ugly head. Racism brings about all these negative emotions. Racism is the bane of human society, of the civilised world. Yet, in every single human being, there will be, a tiniest drop of racism in each, because every single species will, fear something that is different, anything different. Even in people of the same race, wars between clans and tribes of the same race happen, because everyone wants to survive, no matter who you belong to, cause if you do not share my blood, you are different and are a threat to my survivial and seed. All these can be summed up the word mentioned above. Racism. Racism against different races, against different languages, against different skin, against different castes, against different ideologies... etc. Damn racism. damn its beginnings, damn the emotions that it brings, damn the anger, depression, fear that springs forth from its womb. As for those people who did all those things. My anger cannot but pour forth unto them. Yet forgiveness is called upon. For when Jesus was crucified on the cross, his body all mangled up, beaten, till eyes that looked upon him could see not a human figure, pain screaming everywhere in each and every nerve ending, He looked up to heaven and said" Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do." He knows, and sees, and i believe, that His hands comfort those who were inflicted with such horrible pain. For now, I pray that those visions haunt me no more...
