Peterson Toscano's A Musing

Towards the end of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reflected on the Black Civil Rights struggle, the successes, and the long road ahead. In his final book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community, he wrote, Photo by Chris on Pexels "And so being a Negro in America is not a comfortable existence. It means being a part of the company of the bruised, the battered, the scarred, and the defeated. Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitations, and then being hated for being an orphan. Being a Negro in America means listening to suburban politicians talk eloquently against open housing whi...

I f you like podcasts, you are in luck. Quaker podcasts and video channels have grown over the past few years. Here are links to some of them. Quakers Today podcast, a monthly short podcast that reveals what today's Quakers are thinking, feeling, and doing. It is a project of Friends Journal The show includes listeners' responses to monthly questions. Thee Quaker , A Weekly Quaker Podcast for Seekers, Quakers, and Everyone in Between The Seed Conversations for Radical Hope is a bi-monthly podcast out of Pendle Hill retreat center. This seasons theme is about Love and Power. Quake it Up is a YouTube channel out of England. Ollie explores contemporary and historical Quaker themes and regularly has guests who are Quaker scholars, public figures, and thought leaders. QuakerSpeak Videos a bi-weekly Quaker video project by Friends Journal.

Many of the ugly pages of American History have been obscured and forgotten. The society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice, which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes in the country that would be great, will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--Justice. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community The Season of Pendle Hill's podcast, The Seed Conversations for Radical Hope, is taking a deep dive into this book and the theme of love and justice.