[graciegirl]

It is very hard not to profile. Even if in your heart you want to never judge anyone by their age, the way they dress, their piercings and tattoos, their level of cleanliness, their body English, their car, their packages, their jewelry, their shoes, etc. etc. etc. Our brain is set to summarize. It probably is hard wired to summarize. I do not like any snakes although not a single snake has done me wrong.

If our young granddaughter was visiting and had a meeting to drive to in Orlando, it would be hard not to give her some not so politically correct directions about staying away from certain areas and again, not being alone with people you don't know etc. etc. It is a protective device wired in to most of us although we want our children to be fair to all and find good qualities in everyone.

Adolf Hitler and his bunch of evil folks makes me pause and cringe a little inwardly when I am saying I am German descent to a new Jewish friend. And yet one of my dearest friends was a survivor of the Holocaust. Thank God.

I do get it. I do. It is so hard not to think things sometimes and generalize about folks.

I think most of us try very hard not to pre judge.