Weeding Out Hate Throughout the World

There is no ceasefire that can possibly last until we all learn to transform our inner ecology. The symbolic act of rooting out a weed in the garden and then replenishing it with a seed of peace, can work at the grassroots level. Here are just a few examples of our global activities…. from Springfield, the Land of Lincoln, to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C, to Berlin, Germany, and beyond.   For the past four years, I have been lobbying the White House for a globally televised Weed Out Hate event, in which the First Family would call upon every child in the world to root out a symbolic weed of hatred.  America has so much positive symbolism…. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., respected around the world.

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What is interesting about the concept is that it is rooted in the deepest Judaic roots of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Christian rhetoric….the Wisdom of Abraham if you will.

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