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America's Most Challenging Issue

Kamál (Perfection), 2 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Monday, January 20, 2020

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PROMPT January 20th

Today is a national holiday is the US: Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day. Dr King believed that fear was the ultimate cause of hatred, prejudice, and violence. Do you agree or disagree with his assessment? Give examples.

America's Most Challenging Issue

Racism, America's Most Challenging Issue, eats at the roots of our society. You can attribute it xenophobia, hate, fear, prejudice, or learned prejudice--it doesn't matter which--because all of those fall under the cancer of racism. Racism is injustice. It infests all levels of American society from the grass roots to the oval office.

Rooting it out and healing America, requires each individual to look at their own prejudices--most of which are learned--and take action to learn about and become friends with people of "other races". Humanity is a single race, and it is the differences in complexion and thought that make it beautiful. The only way racism can be destroyed is complete acceptance of the oneness of humanity.

We must put behind us, the old and unscientific definitions of race. We are all descended from humans that began their evolution in Africa. The color of people's skin is an accident of evolution and acclimatizing to different areas of the planet. It's the migration out of Africa that cause the human complexions to change.

"Oneness of Humanity" 

We are one family
Our ancestral unity
Mapped
Traced
Through mitochondrial DNA
To a woman
In Africa

One womb quickened us
Formed us
Fed us
Birthed us
Gave us

Soul stirring passions
That carried us
Through time and across continents
Splintered us
Into separate segments
Of one race