There is no easy answer. I write regularly about the two most pernicious addictions of the human race: the need to be right and others wrong, and the need to feel superior. ALL wars, ALL arguments, all hate and brutality in the human race can likely be pared down to these two compulsions. The desperate needc to be superior (my father can beat up your father, my mother is prettier than your mother) begins young. The ONLY way to deal with this is in the home. Parents teach racism and hate by example. Ignorant parents teach and support racism. Children are born blank slates in this particular way: they are utterly without racial bias. That is learned through example and society.

I spent about a month in Ethiopia, from Lalibela to riding the Bale Mountains by horse to visiting the Denakil Depression. While the begging troubled me, its inception? NGOS and white folks. Ethiopians and other African folks likely didn't beg before colonialization. People are taught they are inferior. As long as they believe it, and that all white folks are rich, they are taught to beg for they are not worthy of anything else. A great and abiding lie.

Isn't it fascinating that all the civilizations in Africa thrived just fine before Westerners, armed with little colorful bits of cloth and a Papal decree to take whatever they found (for god, right?) managed to bring disease and destruction to those very placs?

Don't get me started.