Drawing from the 1964 Twilight Zone episode "I Am the Night -- Color Me Black," written and directed by Rod Serling, this sermon examines hatred as a collective spiritual sickness that spreads beyond individuals to infect communities, institutions, and entire societies. The pastor frames hate not merely as a personal failing but as a corporate sin -- one that seeps into systems of justice, media, law enforcement, and even the church. Using the episode's haunting imagery of an unnatural darkness that refuses to lift on the morning of an unjust execution, the sermon calls people of faith to examine their own complicity in systems of prejudice, to resist the contagion of collective hatred, and to take intentional daily steps to protect and cultivate their inner light. The sermon also explores how language itself shapes perception and reinforces systems of oppression and challenges the congregation to rewrite those definitions through love, justice, and active engagement.