President Joseph Biden,
I watched your news conference (17 May) which you so eloquently captured so much of the underlying issues precipitating this horrible attack in Buffalo, NY and, for sure, so many other places, e.g., Laguna Woods, CA. However, I urge you to look even deeper into your analysis. Our experience surfaces all over the earth, with the possible exception of Switzerland which does not permit anyone becoming a citizen, unless their lineage was in Switzerland. Hungary is trying to avoid internal violence by attempting to limit citizenship to native born and, it seems, being Catholic. Acquiring citizenship in Japan or China requires being born of natives. The historical violence by Protestants in Northern Ireland towards the Catholics mimics the tendency of violence towards the minority.
It surely is mystifying that such hatred exists among humans who all owe their very existence to the same God. Even atheists have to deal with the ultimate question of how the universe was created and how humans emerged 2+ billion years ago. One may be reluctant to recognize the Divine, but it surely is hard to understand how the cosmos originated and eons of evolution that ultimately enabled humans to appear.
If we could recognize that we are all gifts of the Divine (God), we could look at each other with a desire to help, not kill.
Edward J Toomey
45 Glades Rd
Scituate, MA 02066
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