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Willie James Howard
I love Reddit and I stumbled upon the following which made me think really hard this morning.
I am very sad because Willie James Howard would have lived to 92 if he weren’t murdered for revealing in a letter that he was fond of a white girl. He was simply a young man who was brave enough to tell a white girl that he liked her and got killed for it.
When I think of my grandmother, I think of how this teenager could also still be alive today.
A potential life gone for nothing.
It makes me think about all the lives lost around the world due to racism, hatred, misunderstanding of another, discrimination.
How would I feel if someone I weren’t particularly attracted to wrote me a love letter?
I think we need to take into account that it can’t be helped how people feel.
No matter how unattractive someone may be to us, or whether we already have someone else in our lives, if I received such a letter personally (maybe I may not know what I’m talking about when I say this, but I’ve really been feeling and thinking about this), I wouldn’t be upset with this person. I like to think that I’d be kind to this person.
At least, we should remember that when someone is drawn to us, we shouldn’t be mean. We should be hateful. We should remember that…
