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More
than Skin
Deep!
by
Jeff E. Zhorne
No more important issue faces society today!
Y
OU'VE
heard the saying:
" Beauty is more than
skin deep."
A woman, try as she
might with good fashion sense
and grooming, cannot make her–
self truly beautiful unless that
beauty comes
from the heart.
Likewise, not until people learn
to care for each other
from the
heart
will diverse ethnic and racial
groups live side by side in the
beauty of peace.
Racism Cuts Deep
Newspaper and mag–
azine articles
increasingly focus
on gang fights
and racial or religious strife. The
writers usually end in a plea for
better police practices, for new
government social programs or re–
newed "racism awareness."
Most pleas of this type focus
mainly on the e ffects, not the
causes!
The Plain Truth,
by contrast,
takes you deep into the cause-the
why--Qf today's violence and hos–
t il ities. That's why it's called "a
magazine of understanding."
Look at this world for a moment.
In South Africa, the increasing
racial violence caused Bishop Tutu
of the Anglican church to sigh:
"We are building up an incredible
legacy of hatred...."
Indian Sikh extremists-Sikhs
account for only 2 percent of In–
dia's population- have claimed
thousands of lives in the past four
years, includi ng that of the late
Prime Minister Jndira Gandhi.
Age-old religious and social
grievances fuel frictions in North–
ern Ireland. In Britain , police now
realize they can no longer
face rioters' gun fire and gasoline
bombs, armed only with plastic
shields. As one policeman said,
"This is not the England we should
be living in."
Hostilities occur on a daily basis
between native West Germans and
Turkish
Gasrarbeíter
(guest work–
e rs). Minority Yugoslavs and
Turks find themselves in difficulty
in Sweden.
France is on uneasy terms with
sorne four million Algerians, Por–
tuguese and Moroccans living
within French borders.
In Yugoslavia, where one million
are jobless and inflation soars at
more than 70 percent, ethnic rival–
ríes fiare between the Serbs,
Croats, Slovenes, Macedoni ans,
Montenegrins and Albanians.
All through the Middle East
political and ethnic issues hover
near flash point.
In Australia resentments mount
against Aborigines cla iming
greater land rights.
Russians are concerned over the
ever-multiplying Asiatics among
them.
Blacks, Hispanics and Ori–
entals have become targets for
unemployed workers in
the United States. Under
skies crisscrossed by satellites
and jet aircraft, desegre–
gation and resegregation
have gane so far in
the United States that
longtime black
residents in
Washington,
D .C., are
feuding with
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