Innocents

One would rather stand by the empty space of a seat on a bus, train, subway, link rail or streetcar rather than sit beside a person of a different race or ethnic group.  If it's a female who takes the empty space beside a male she wonders, "Is his ego going, 'open o' sesame.' ?"  If it's a male who sits beside a female, he assumes, "She thinks that I wanna jump in bed with her . . . I just wanna seat on this damn public transportation."
The same people who fill the churches, mosques, cathedrals, and Temples, and other houses of worship do this.
The same people who fill the high schools, colleges, and universities, and fill the jails and prisons do this.

"Oh, I don't discuss politics," some say.  "I don't have a television or a radio or computer.  Don't even read the newspapers."
"What do you think of the Boko Haram?"
"Boko Harem? Is that like polygamy, one man with all them wives?"
"Haram, not harem.  They're black Muslim terrorists in Afrika, kidnapping young girls, killing natives, burning villages.  Most of the people in the villages are illiterate, don't have radios and don't know what's going on in their country until the Boko Haram appears shooting, chopping off heads, kidnapping and torturing."
"Killing innocent people?  That's why I just read the Bible, go to Church, and pray.  I have nothing to do with politics."

"You don't vote?"
"Of course, I vote, but just in presidential elections."
"What do you judge presidential candidates on, their knowledg of foreign policy?"
"I don't know nothing about that foreign policy stuff.  I judge him by what he says about God."
"What do you know about ISIS?"
"Ice is?  What's that?"
"More Muslim terrorists slaughtering Christians, robbing, raping -- you ever been involved in trying to resolve social problems?"
"Problems.  Who needs problems?  My husband and I have our family, have our house, car and children and jobs, so we don't have time for no social problems."
"What would you and your family do if some terrorists tried to kidnap people in your community and blow it up?"
"We'd do just like the other good, innocent people, go to another community.  Let the police handle it -- and pray that these Muslims don't kill us good, innocent people."
"They say that there are no innocent people."