It's all clear. All white people hate black people. It's obvious. White people do not value the lives of African-Americans. The only thing white people spend their time doing is conspiring amongst themselves on how to trick African-Americans to take the fall for every crime that is committed in the United States.

Is this issue of racism so black and white?

Racism is a disease that effects all people. You cannot generalize all white people as evil and all black people as good.

To many African-Americans, fellow black people are considered brothers and sisters. Then what are the white people? To Chino Wilson, it seems sadly, they are the enemy. Reading between the lines of his column (Jan. 24), I see so much hatred and bitterness. Hatred directed not only towards the white person, but towards everyone.

As human beings, we are all brothers and sisters, black and white. Hatred blinds us, love binds us. It is very difficult to remain objective when one is grinding an axe.

It is unfortunately true that injustices towards the black community do occur often. But this does not justify racism among African-Americans.

We must work to destroy the ignorance and misunderstanding that segregates our people. If you look closely, we are not so different. And what hurts me the most is the recent trend among many in the black community that hatred towards whites is permissible.

Chino Wilson says that Malcolm X is his teacher. Well, Steven Biko and the Rev. Martin Luther King are mine. They believed that if one responded to hatred with love, love would eventually conquer the hatred in our hearts. This may sound highly idealistic, but look how much change these men brought to their nations.

It is the responsibility of every man and woman, black and white, to pick up where these men left off, to not let the teachings of Rev. King and Mr. Biko be forgotten.

These changes, however, must start with the individual. No one can force a person to stop hating. Isn't it high time we stopped waging war amongst ourselves and started the war against ignorance and racism? To Chino Wilson, and others like him, I ask that they take a good, hard look in the mirror and confront the hatred that lies within.