Hate and Love (again)

From an essay by Patricia J. Williams: The prevalence of how givingly social divisions are transmitted was brought home to me in an essay written by one of my former students: She described her father as a loving family man, who worked six and a half days a week to provide for his wife and children. He always took Sunday afternoons off; that was sacred time, reserved for a “family drive.” Yet the family’s favorite pastime, as they meandered in Norman Rockwell contentment, was, according to this student, “trying to pick the homosexuals out of the crowd.”…Hate learned in a context of love is a complicated phenomenon. And love learned in a context of hate endangers all our family. (115)