A LOVELY HISTORY IN HATE

Michael Gerald
4 min readMar 18, 2021

Today we are living in some of the most hateful times imaginable, and it seems that everyone has some sort of opinion on why and how we got here. But when it comes to race in America, the narrative always seems to be the same.

Whenever a new set of immigrants come across our shores or borders they are deemed to be the reason that our current problems exist. This is not something most of us think about immediately. It takes a very special person to begin the process of passing judgment on someone whom they have never met. Yet, in America, being the melting pot that we are, this kind of…

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Michael Gerald
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Michael Gerald is a Gulf War Veteran from New Orleans, La., co-authored the urban crime fiction book Dodging Bullets, and has written numerous screenplays.