Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance – Nathan Rutstein

We all succumb to prejudice.  It is in our genetic makeup.  It follows us around like a stink that just won’t go away.  We don’t notice it because it is always around.  We breath it in and call it fresh.

It doesn’t take much to bring out the flowery stench, at least in our own minds; in the secret recesses of thought that come over us when we least expect it, when we “notice”.

We are all bigots to a certain degree.  We have to live with it even though we try not to.  Some have simply succumbed to the contradiction of thought that rolls through their minds.  Others dismiss it as impossibility while unfurling their national pride.

But in order to do those things they have to dismiss the fact that they have an “emotional commitment to ignorance.”  But of course, such people don’t think that way, if they think at all.

They simply know they are better.  They know that they are above the fray.  They are simply prejudiced.