The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, August 4, 2013
In next year's entry for ROBERT HAYDEN
please mention his BAHA'I affiliation.
To omit it is like failing to mention electricity
when paying homage to Thomas Edison.
For example, from wikipedia:
As a supporter of his religion's teaching of the unity of humanity, Hayden could never embrace Black separatism.[9] Thus, the title poem of "Words in the Mourning Time" ends in a stirring plea in the name of all humanity:
Reclaim now, now renew the vision of
a human world where godliness
is possible and man
is neither gook nigger honkey wop or kike
but man
permitted to be man
In next year's entry for ROBERT HAYDEN
please mention his BAHA'I affiliation.
To omit it is like failing to mention electricity
when paying homage to Thomas Edison.
For example, from wikipedia:
As a supporter of his religion's teaching of the unity of humanity, Hayden could never embrace Black separatism.[9] Thus, the title poem of "Words in the Mourning Time" ends in a stirring plea in the name of all humanity:
Reclaim now, now renew the vision of
a human world where godliness
is possible and man
is neither gook nigger honkey wop or kike
but man
permitted to be man