The only real way to eliminate racism is to love people, as they enter our lives, one by one.

Each person is a unique individual not made by him or herself, and if we treat the people who are in our lives or who come into our lives, wherever that may be, with utmost respect and genuine concern, racism becomes a non-issue.

That's because the color of the skin, hair, eyes, the shape of the body, the language, religion, or opinions won't affect our treatment of them.

We are born into this world with no choice as to the color of our skin, or the shape of our bodies, or the language we first begin to speak, or the country of birth. We don't even have the choice of having good parents or bad parents, no siblings or many siblings. We only have the choice to do something with what we've got. And the choice to treat others as we would like to be treated.

It's tough when we use the standards of the people who are in our day to day environments. We "feel" a certain reaction to people that are different than we are by how we've seen the significant others in our lives react to them.

The only way to overcome our racist thoughts and reactions is to really think of each person who comes across our paths as one who is more important than ourselves...worth utmost respect and honor.

This proactive way of living in this world so full of relationship trouble in our families, schools, workplaces, politics, will slowly wipe out racism...one relationship at a time.

That is what Christ Jesus came and did with each person He met while on the earth. This is what He continues to do through us until He returns.

When we realize His love for us just as we are - in all our unloveliness - when He poured on us His love by taking our place on the cross for the payment of our inherited and daily sin, we can go out and love each one we meet, uniquely, with the love of Christ. Any other kind of love would be racist (self-centered in some way) and very insufficient.

There is nothing to lose, and all the world to be gained.