“Don’t Dirty Your Hands”

That’s what my Mom would tell me about not fighting back

Below is the text, verbatim of a video about peace that I recently posted on my YouTube Channel.

This text and the video were subsequently published by the Baltimore and Los Angeles Post Examiner online newspapers.

Also see below for links to the article and the original video.

Thank you for reading, watching, and hopefully, listening.

Peace,

Herbie J Pilato

Hi, Everybody.

The world has gone a little crazy right now. So I thought I would talk a little bit today about peace, and how it really does begin with you.

With me.

With us.

I was bullied, I was beat up — mostly every day of my young life. And I never really retaliated — certainly physically.

It was more name calling and whatnot, but there were days when I was physically attacked.

And I would get angry.

You know, obviously, I was devastated. It affected me in many ways and I still have those memories. But my mom — when I would want to fight back — my mom would say, “Herbie J, don’t be like them. Don’t dirty your hands.”