Could not agree with you more. I was in the US Army 22 years, Doctors without Borders for 3 and a private security consultant for overseas clients and traveled more. I say all this to bring up a point. I have seen dozens of different cultures and spiritual beliefs. I look at the 1st would and hear all this about racism and hate etc. That is minor and blown so out of proportion to make and if you mind the cliche' molehill into a mountain' when it is compared to the rest of the world. The team I worked with was made up of people from all over the world. They are still some of my best friends, one is from the Ivory Coast, another from Ukraine and the leader was South African and female. There never was any hostility, hate or any of that crap, Sorry long winded, it leads up to this, my friends from the Ivory Coast and another from Sudan found out I was from the Southern US. They came to me and wanted to know where I stood because they were black. Their idea of a southern man from the US as racist, sheet wearing evil men. All from what they saw in the media that got to them. They were still under the impression that blacks were segregated and that all our families own slaves. This was all early when our team was put together and had not formed the bond that came later. I laughed at them and we had a talk that took a couple of days. In the end, they learned that the US was not a Mordor for blacks, and I learned that the tribal hatred in a lot of Africa was much more insidious than anything I knew of or most of the 1st world. And it still goes on today. And slavery still exists and is bigger than it ever was. Summing this up, a lot of people are happy not having to spend the time to learn about the real world and what really is here and out there in the world. They are happy in their self-imposed ignorance, more than willing to take what the media tells them is the truth in a sort of blind faith. That is more worrying to me than anything else. Here is a good book on this, a good read if you ask me, https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/1620973928/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LSHQWXHVC4UZ&keywords=lies+my+teacher+told+me+by+james+loewen&qid=1554842260&s=gateway&sprefix=lies+my%2Caps%2C506&sr=8-1
The author is a college history professor. If you have gotten this far thanks for taking the time to read my little monologue.