Inside from the Inside

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Living in Harlem, I’ve been seeing Asian tourists coming uptown for years, and that would little suprise most people. What might get their attention, though, is that many of these sojourners don’t come here just to eat at Sylvia’s, or merely to sit in the back of Abyssinian Baptist Church and hear its choir’s masterful [...]

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Mahatma Ghandi, the man in the picture, has been one of the most profoundly positive influences on mankind in the last century. I suspect that his teaching of passive resistance liberated more humans non-violently than were been liberated by war.

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…now I understood something about my own country I didn’t understand before. I know why so many white people here don’t realize how serious the problem of racism is in the USA. I finally get it.

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Planning on attending the U.N. conference on racism in Switzerland next month?  Not anymore, at least not if you’re a member of the Italian, Canadian, Israeli, or possibly even American delegations.  Why not?  Is it because these countries are, in fact, racist nations and don’t want to participate?  No.  It’s because religion has worked it’s [...]

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Here I was skating with black people mostly, but everyone really, a rainbow of people, and we were all flying together. We were a graceful flock of swallows, all soaring one way, then the other — swaying in unison — lifted together by the music and singing our hearts out. Flying was our form of prayer and our hope for the future and this was our anthem:

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