Brought to you by - a black person! Well, that's convenient, eh? :D

Story time:

In 2012 I visited Hyde Park in London, and there's a cool spot there called Speaker's Corner. Every Sunday people gather there to speak and discuss and debate about whatever topics they have on their mind. There are some whacky characters there, some extreme views, but mostly just reasonable and engaging conversation (unless it's about Islam, then it can get violent).

Anyway, I saw this black dude one time. He was wearing a full Hugo Boss designed Nazi uniform - the black SS hat, the black knee-high leather boots, and the red swastika armband (I'm pretty sure it's illegal to dress like a Nazi). And he was yelling, "Black people can't be racist! That's right, black people cannot be racist! There is no way that black man or woman can ever be racist! Black people are not racist!"

And that just stuck with me, you know, because it's such a contrast, and it makes a staggering point about humanity, which is that it's only a matter of circumstance that the Nazi's weren't black, as we all possess within us the capacity for hateful judgement and genocide. To believe otherwise is naive and denies a very basic fact of human nature: “No tree can grow to Heaven unless it's roots reach down to Hell.”

As Alexander Solzhenitsyn put it, "“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.”