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Howard Thurman's 'Hatred In Chatpter 4'

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In Chatpter 4 Howard Thurman give you his outlook on hate. Hatred cannot be defined. It can only be described.“Hate is another of the hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the disinherited in season and out of season. Christianity has been almost sentimental in its effort to deal with harted by preachments by moralizing by platitudinous judgement. Howard Thurman make mention of hatred be in the Pearl Harbor and how they were attacked by the Japanese. He goes on to say Japanese gave many people in out country an apparent justification for indulging all of their anticolored feeling. He mentions while the war was going on he knew there was hatred, white were treating blacks so bad it was almost as if black did not even matter. For me i have
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