when pride shuns extended love, is it no better than hate? I am not denying the vengefulness and anger of the pro-black pride stance, as it the medicine that the whites have created and now must eat. However, when a man shows love to another, hate immediately becomes an out-of-place emotion. Say you don't trust that man enough to accept his love. Make him prove it with action to undo the hate and prejudice that he has built up through his actions. But, never make him feel foolish for extending it. When rejected, love shrinks back and makes a man hard-hearted and less likely to extend it fully again. Such is the plight of the black man, whose love and peace was extended, rejected and used a means of subjugation and manipulation by the white man. And now the result, and rightful result given the hellacaustic slave trade, is that the black man guards his love so fiercely and extends it now to the whites hersitantly and with due suspicion. Let's learn the price of rejecting love in what the black/white struggle shows us and be more irational in the way we treat it when extended. Show love, know love, grow love. Rejecting love is an act of hate...let's not do that!