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