Al-Muhajabah's Islamic BlogsThree blogs for the price of one!A more perfect union- March 18, 2008 Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. As William Faulkner once wrote, The past isnt dead and buried. In fact, it isnt even past. We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery...http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/the_clipboard/010924.php |