I'm noticing a growing trend lately and I find it quite disturbing.

So I read up on various news sites here and there, but nothing that I truly delve into.  I will read up on something that catches my eye.  A fun story here and there, or sad stories that will pull at the hearts strings.  Sometimes I read trashy stories (like kardashian updates I was so excited to see a picture of her beautiful little girl.).  But those aren't the things I find disturbing.  It's in the comments.  ESPECIALLY in the sad stories.  Even in the heartwarming stories these comments are made, and I just don't understand it.  Almost EVERY negative comment is laced w/ racism.

This evening I was reading a story about a 15 year old boy who forced a 7 year old to do unspeakable things, and then attempted to trap her in a home and burn the house down. Sad, terrible, heart wrenching story.  But the comments... Terrible.  I just want to scream at these people to remember that there is a 7 year old girl involved in this tragic event, and will likely be scarred beyond anything we can comprehend.  She needs support from these strangers (as it has reached national news, though she is not named, nor is the attacker named).  She doesn't need her life being drug through the mud by these morons hiding behind a computer screen.

Some of the comments include:
"was it another son of Obama?  Sounds like it could be."

"It was a black guy, why is there no picture of him?"

"@soandso do you know why it's extremely ignorant and dangerous to pretend race is irrelevant, and we're NOT all the same?  Of course you don't, that's why you live in a fantasy world."

"Well since the race of the perpetrator has been deliberately omitted, we can assume the the 15yr old rapist is WHAT COLOR???  Poughkeepsie (where the incident happened), it takes a village.....  from projects to penitentiary, your children are AOK in Poughkeepsie........ This ad approved by daddy Obama and DNC....."

Those aren't the worst!!!  Mind you neither the boy OR the girl's race was added into the story.  These idiots have no idea if the young girl was hispanic, white, black, asian, polynesian... These idiots have no idea if the boy is any of these races either.  They could have both been the same race, or of different decent.  Why are we bringing the color of a person's skin into something so tragic?  IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENED!!!  The "perpetrator's" skin did not commit the crime, the person inside the skin did.  His skin did not define him to be good or bad.  He was not pre-destined to do these things BECAUSE of the color he wears on his epidermis.  These are things he can't change or choose.  But HE chose to commit those actions not his skin.

Now mind you this is a growing trend I am noticing.  I hate this.  I hadn't noticed it before, but with everyone saying that the white people are racist BECAUSE they are white, may not ring true, BUT they are not proving anyone wrong by saying the things like the above quotes!!   Why do these people feel they need to bring race into everything?  Do they not realize what they are doing?  Or do they not care?  We REALLY need to focus on the issue rather than the color someone was born with on their skin.  I blame the George Zimmerman trial for this.  No one but God knows exactly what happened, and people have a right to be upset.

But I believe that if Zimmerman is truly guilty of murder, and he killed that young man (Treyvon Martin) because of race, among other things; GOD will dole out the deserved justice.  No matter what happens in this life that we don't like or understand, everything will turn out after this life.  We need to treat people w/ the love of Christ.  I don't understand how some rules of these "christians" (yes some of them w/ the nasty tongue claim to be christian) are ok to throw out the window when it comes to specific types of people.  For instance, "Love thy neighbor as thyself...".  This does not end w/ "unless they are black".  Or "unless they aren't the same race as you".

I hope that at some point we can remember that ALL of us are God's children, and just as children on the playground can be influenced by their friends, so can anyone be influenced by Satan.  Satan is not racist or sexist.  He influences people of all colors and genders.  If there is anything I want people to take away from this it's that I believe in God, Jesus Christ, AND the Holy Ghost, and I believe that through them this world can be a better place. God created his children... INCLUDING their skin color.  We are perfected through Christ.  Not each other.