I sat in stone silence looking at the white man sitting a few feet away from me. My heart was cold toward him, and I assumed he felt the same about me.
If we just consider the barrage of (bad) news broadcast daily, we could easily come to the conclusion that history is one catastrophe after another. War after war, disaster after disaster. Injustice leveled upon injustice, people treated as property, robbed of their Creator given rights to live free etc. etc.