St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-02-06
Brenda LELAND Defines Reasons
For Racial, Religious Intolerance
BY Brenda LELAND in the HennepIn County REVIEW


BY Brenda LELAND in the HennePin County REVIEW
studying intolerance myself Everybody
anti-MethOdst anti-Jewish maybe
just prejudice against city against
drink against those who don against people who
| say and dandy,
scolding IOathsOme
ta ne Vesuga aIa"suc remains OF something toohSh anu
abyna We write editorials BE tolerant democracy
only of a
off codnss counrymen and human brothers the world
that is no good
thing S study yourself
will:
my partly a t instinc
disageeable quarrelsome family
who unite the drop of hat dislng another family just
dsagreeable stens
haired terrier against anything that is new, outside
myself look
intelligent Intelligence measured by how far magma
ton can see into other people and tngs the more Interested de-
lighted should different How tedious
dead for YOURSELF like wanting nothing
Or
of Think Germany wanting their
nothing but Naz Germansan blond all pink with rather
everything that
good imagine anything depressing than land of
adulterated Nazi Germans.
m my intolerance I find aspery-that quick
running %
prove Say along you him
Eagerly you pin a drowning
straw "Never could like who a neckte like that"
But the irony of it is that he appeared with perfect necte
Nope jealous
Because all critical aspey springs from concet Il perfection
list very sensitive to things " you tell yourself But is all
meagerness, concet
So myself when point at Negroes, Chinese
Frenhmen Englshmen southerners Yankees with oahng
their bad traits find simultaneously
that WE shining gods bright honorable and
beautiful.
you intolerance always
take backward look at yourself and ask: Am that way? is
others you yourself
think gueess people that
geess liars that everybody lying brave people
always assume that others So And so it goes
a that catch intolerance from others
thoughts spring independently
in skulls Not Thoughts fly around in the air and flow in
sby and permeangy into brain and fill as river
pOurs through cheese cloth The more mediocre your mental equip
readily
tiated yokels swamp and drown out your
to my strongest argument against my
vugarity. inertia,
boObery 1t is all primitive thinking scale And this
psychologist a study mentality
primitive
thinking and hen bother think is this that native
mind mystic preogcal" 1t fused The dead living
reality that a
shot him. must on waking kill this man. and if he does he will
consider himself the Prmves LevyBhl said
into kind of miss thinking Ia massinmion)
example, they a
harmless they take precautions them
killed always who told the crocodile
do it The wizard sought and killed but the crocodile not to
blame.
primves thinking
believe two things at once L That the wizard and crocodile
they separate primitive
perfect secondary
| causes
Well isn't prejudice other preiudices
just that? vestgal remain Of primitive thinking Blurred
amophous vulgar thinking" 1t thinking in generalZa
tions; Jews The British COored people ="
Women liars accepts a every
individual since the beginning of time is different.
And when blanket dislike group
remember Is just slump into poor soggy primitive vulgar think
ing OF is peasurabe American,
Safeguarding the English that stupid Engishman
heard "f 1--WE rarely know the people blacguard the most
vuent Safeguarding always hearsay)
thereby feeling superiority
some great Enghmen like Lord Robert Cecil Gilbert Murray
Sir James
Every and then
sental thing about Christianity truly original thing
notion Of forgiveness that evders
hxity person eternay
| changing
An individual not his father
his politics. Republican
Communist He himself always freely changing
that he learn the life
gvenes" that fity
don't have
they be miracuousy changed
afternoon And if you rejoice is
| best change anybody
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