I hate hate, I love love....

Don't you know I hate hate.

Razzy Bailey (of The Aquarians fame) and the Neighbourhood Kids released a tune in 1974, my year of birth, that embodies everything I'm trying to be. 'I Hate Hate' is one of my favourite all time soul tunes, it goes a little something like this;

"There's so much hate going on today, on the right and on the left,

You say we hate our brothers, yes we do and we hate our ownselves,

There's even hate going on today between the young folks and the old,

Can't you see all this hate is eating up our very soul,

That's why I'm singing now, I I I hate hate, 

Everybody listen to me, I I I hate hate,

All sing together now, I I I hate hate,

But the good Lord above, don't you know I love love..."

39 years ago this song hit the airwaves, and the lyrics ring truer today than they did then. We’ve evolved how exactly? This vile hateful uprising against  ‘Muslamics’ or whatever hateful name that the EDL, UKIP and our Government controlled Media are spitting. They’re inciting an Islamaphobic nation through nothing other than the will to win votes, justify wars, distract the working classes from the real issues and destroy one of the most wonderful things about being British, our diversity.

Hate is never going to be a catalyst for peace. Hate will only ever create more hate, the motion is perpetual. To reduce the security risk, we need to demonstrate love, compromise, acceptance of change. Of course, there will always be extremes. I saw something the other day that helps give a little perspective; assuming all Muslims are a terrorist threat, is like assuming all Christians are members of the Klu Klux Klan.

Or, in my own case. My grandpa was Irish and a Catholic. So, I’m the grandson of an immigrant paedophile and I should be put ‘on the boat’ and sent back from whence I came. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA: Tommy Robinson, the leader of the EDL) is therefore more of an immigrant paedophile because both of his parents are Irish immigrants. No wonder he changed his name hey?

A few words I’ve found myself repeating regularly recently are:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jnr.

I’m standing by these words. I’m standing by ‘Be Nice’ and I’m standing by my pride at being British. I’m from England, a land of cultural diversity unrivalled anywhere in the world. A land that travelled the world, left it’s mark and commands a language spoken by more people internationally than any other. If we can give it out, we should learn how to take it.

One Love

Jez

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