We should never have taught them to read.  Turns out they are just as smart as anyone.  Blame the children of slave owners.  Why?  They were best friends with children of slaves.  What do best friends do?  They share things.  All kinds of things.  They show each other stuff they just discovered and even how it works.  Pretty exciting. Sometimes they will challenge their best friend, but always patiently, because they want their best friend to succeed.  

This goes on till sometime in their adolescence when they would look at each another in a different way, as if one of them were a stranger.  Spoken or unspoken, one of them would realize their friendship must be secondary, put on a lower level, behind some new role in their own family and community.  Sometimes they fight just to make the break quicker, less painful.  Yet that precious friendship, lost or dissolved, never goes away completely.  

They never were animals.  Animals don’t read or play musical instruments – though they do sing.  Animals don’t become artists, teachers, engineers, or business people.  Animals don’t invent Arabic numerals.  Yes, Arabic numerals, a tool used by everyone.  Any why this fear of Russians, people who have created a great culture with great music, literature, and ballet?  Have you ever heard a Rachmaninoff Concerto?  If Russians are evil, then we should not allow our children to listen to The Nutcracker Ballet, composed by a Russian named Tchaikovsky.  

Here we consider the power of language, the power of music, mathematics and design.  These are all part of a story that should give guidance, and must touch reality at some points along the way or it will fail.  Stories can be modified when circumstances demand.  When the politicians are paralyzed it may be up to religious leaders of integrity with or without military leaders to make such changes.  Citizen’s can and will do it on their own but it may take longer.  If the story and the social hierarchy rest only on the power of violence, then humans are destined to forever fight each other and never see what lies beyond.