The best cure for hate: love. Try giving acceptance and compassion to those you feel may be on a wrong path, don't let them push you away when they need a friend, but allow enough space for them to come to come around, sometimes all someone needs is a good friend and a listening ear. The best cure for ignorance is of course education. The more exposure someone has to a culture/race, the less likely they are to fear and hate them. Invite them to places where they can interact with those who are different and challenge their perception of what "normal" is, not with lectures, but through experience, show, don't tell or preach. 38
They have to see for themselves that they are misinformed. No amount of words can teach someone something they don't want to hear, but a few hours a week spent in the company of diverse and different people can paint a picture like nothing else can. If possible, invite them over to your home for meetings or just a diner with people of different ethnic backgrounds, have them tell stories, and let them know in advance that you have a "less than tolerant" friend who's horizon you wish to expand. Take them out to a bar for a night with "the guys" and have them get to know different kinds of experiences and people. Most of all, be patient and accepting and realize this will take time, don't be discouraged if it doesn't work out as well or as fast as you would hope, people come around in their own way and time and an epiphany like that won't just happen overnight, but gradually over time, keep showering them in positive emotions and energy regardless of what they say or do, for ever intolerant remark, show twice as much patients, and eventually you may see a different side to them. Sure, this may seem like a frustrating amount of work, but if you feel there is hope for them, if you feel they are worth it, don't give up on them, cause that's exactly what they expect, its probably what everyone else has done their whole lives. 846