In a whole blog full of beautiful posts, Blogwarrior Phillipe has just cast light on the Don Imus thing from a Bahá’àperspective on strength, nobility, and the station of African Americans:
What I concluded is that the excessive focus on how upsetting these kinds of statements are to African Americans is a way of saying that we are so fragile from the experience of racism in this country, that such comments are psychologically devastating to us, rather than simply offensive or annoying.
I’d recommend subscribing to his RSS feed, and I’ve added him to the blogroll on your right. There’s good food over there. I’ll close with another quote from Phillipe’s post, which references the Bahá’àbelief that human beings have an immense capacity:
Every Black American, even on their worst day is living proof that we have survived the worst that white supremacy could throw at us… We are powerful (as all human beings are) because God made us that way.
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Hey Anonymous Cowgirl, thanks for the love. It’s completely mutual!
Happy Ridvan to you my friend
Thanks, Phillipe. Happy Ridvan to you. I’m finishing up school, and will be visiting Boston in a few days. Perhaps we will run into each other…
so this isn’t in response to your post…its just to let you know i wrote it out..but i might see you before you read this anyway
Good for you.
Beautiful observations! Thanks for the introduction, Lev!