Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was an advisor of one of my advisors, and therefore in a way my academic grandfather or great-uncle or something, was arrested in his own home for disorderly conduct. The details have been described in a number of places, and I won’t belabor them, but it looks like this: Dr. [...]
Dear ones,
I’m writing to call your attention to the two new pages on our blog. To the right, you’ll see links to them. The first, “Life, Death, and the End of the World” is a collection of Baha’i quotes I quickly compiled for an interfaith panel where each of seven religious representatives were given [...]
This video is a delightful exploration of how the face of our society is changing, as people break down the racial barriers and love each other! Check it out: Something Other Than . The last minute (of the 7:16) will make you fall in love too.
Dear ones,
Lev and I have been asked to help facilitate the annual Green Acre Race Unity day (I almost wrote Racy Unity – yikes! that’s something else entirely!) this year on June 6 at the bucolic campus in Eliot, Maine.
I’m pulling together some ideas now, and this blog entry serves two purposes:
1. As [...]
Around 1911 Abdu’l-Baha said, “When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love. Thoughts of war bring destruction to all harmony, well-being, restfulness and content. Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and happiness.” [...]
In February and March, two articles were published in two of the top psychology journals. They were both about interracial interactions, and each, by itself, made sense. Put side by side, however, there’s something else going on…and frankly, I need help figuring it out. So I call on you, dear readers, to let me [...]
Inspired by the live blogging efforts over at Baha’i Thought, and Phillipe’s writings on Two Americas and the different experience of Blacks and Whites in the U.S., I thought I’d post this. Ian Haney Lopez gave a talk at Tufts University on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008. The talk was entitled “Race and School Integration: A [...]
In a whole blog full of beautiful posts, Blogwarrior Phillipe has just cast light on the Don Imus thing from a Bahá’à perspective 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 [...]