Racism Routed: 9 Page Intro
May 26, 2020
After all these centuries living under the yoke and the curse of racism who’d have thought that structural racism is terminated by the Baha’i principle of a universal auxiliary language, sadly the principle most sidelined by Baha’u’llah’s followers! Please bear in mind that an auxiliary language usurps no tribal or national tongue.
For our boys Edwin and Amin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frj2CLGldC4
“There’s nothin’ new under the sun, right?” https://www.gotquestions.org/nothing-new-under-the-sun.html
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes: 1:9 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=KJV
Well! Yes and no! Screen time’s pretty new and besides, Jesus revealed truths not known to Moses or Abraham and yet all 3 of those Manifestations of God possess the identical spirit found in Progressive Revelation that we couldn’t bear hearing about in the time of Christ’s ministry: John 16:12 http://bahaiteachings.org/religion-progresses-humanity
"In order to facilitate complete understanding between all people, a universal auxiliary language will be adopted…In all the sacred books where do you find such a statement?” Abdul Baha. Now that is new! Ain’t no doubt about it, boys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZE4arxJwc
https://www.bing.com/search PC=NR02&FORM=NRSBDL&q=norman+greenbaum+-+spirit+in+the+sky
Paul Desailly, Sofia, en route to Moscow, November 1990
See PROOF – for the lay person, pages 61,70
From Babel to Baha’i p39
Ecclesiastes 3 adapted by Pete Seeger and the Byrds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
Nisei courage foils racism and Nazism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adjnOrbM2rY
Nisei courage foils racism and Nazism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adjnOrbM2rY
RACISM ROUTED A UNIVERSAL AUXLANG & THE ONENESS OF HUMANITY 2020
If you consider the white race superior, read this and weep! An international auxiliary language foils the scourge of racial prejudice once and for all: “Therefore the very first service to the world of man is to establish this auxiliary international means of communication. It will become the cause of the tranquillity of the human commonwealth. Through it sciences and arts will be spread among the nations and it will prove to be the means of the progress and development of ALL RACES.” Guess who? Sir Abdul Baha Abbas KBE, 25th April 1912, to the Esperantists of Washington D.C. as recorded in the Promulgation of Universal Peace (PUP) on page 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_Who%27s_Coming_to_Dinner
Wilberforce, Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Reverend King and Martha Root have well and truly done their bit, but, as ever, it's apathy or the ensuing push back and undermining that atavistically take us back, back, back, Jim Crow-like, almost to a slave block mentality — most unfortunately. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/05/clotilda-the-last-american-slave-ship-found-in-alabama/
Nothing short of a transformation of society and a revolutionary rethink regarding the racist (and sexist!) languages of the slave traders is called for! That the victims’ most articulate champions — whether as intellectuals advocating in civil society, as academics in respected institutions, or among religionists and even in the African American and indigenous communities now that their cultures and languages have largely been taken from them — one and all deploy, almost exclusively, those demeaned imperial languages instrumental in enslaving their forbears strikes the two million strong diaspora of Esperantists as a grotesquely sad and avoidable irony.
Nothing short of a transformation of society and a revolutionary rethink regarding the racist (and sexist!) languages of the slave traders is called for! That the victims’ most articulate champions — whether as intellectuals advocating in civil society, as academics in respected institutions, or among religionists and even in the African American and indigenous communities now that their cultures and languages have largely been taken from them — one and all deploy, almost exclusively, those demeaned imperial languages instrumental in enslaving their forbears strikes the two million strong diaspora of Esperantists as a grotesquely sad and avoidable irony.
In brief, for the global village, as distinct from the USA alone, racism is such a disgustingly destructive disaster that society totters on the brink of civil war. Love of course is the only solution, but a catalyst, a circuit breaker, is urgently needed for uniting humankind: "Unless the unity of language is realized, the 'Most Great Peace' and the oneness of the human world cannot be effectively organized and established; because the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts. The heart is like a box and language is the key. We can open the box only by using the key, and observe the gems it contains.” Abdul Baha (PUP)
Beneficiaries of the world’s most ‘successful’ colonial language impact minimally the racist status quo in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, USA etcetera while indifferent to the uniquely-Baha’i-principle of an auxiliary international language or while downplaying advantages inherited as privileged native speakers of English, whose culture and history in the last 3 centuries are ruined by racist acts, a continuum that props up endemically structuralized racism so abhorred by the righteous.
http://bahaiteachings.org/unity-diversity-racial-identification - Cynthia Barnes-Slater
http://bahaiteachings.org/unity-diversity-racial-identification - Cynthia Barnes-Slater
250 years since Captain Cook’s landfall on Australia its first peoples await any treaty:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40024622
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/boyer-lecture-rachel-perkins-echoes-uluru-statement/11696504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVORrx9jIiE&list=RDn4mTKcJfnnE&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-jHCdafZY&list=RDn4mTKcJfnnE&index=4
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40024622
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/boyer-lecture-rachel-perkins-echoes-uluru-statement/11696504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVORrx9jIiE&list=RDn4mTKcJfnnE&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-jHCdafZY&list=RDn4mTKcJfnnE&index=4
MENSA MALKOLONIADO: https://uea.org/aktuale/komunikoj/2018/Rezolucio-de-la-103-a-Universala-Kongreso-de-Esperanto
Translated from Esperanto into English, mensa malkoloniado signifies decolonization of a mental mindset. Elevated conversations re the principle of a universal auxlang help refine national cultures, not usurp them.
Translated from Esperanto into English, mensa malkoloniado signifies decolonization of a mental mindset. Elevated conversations re the principle of a universal auxlang help refine national cultures, not usurp them.
Notwithstanding many splendid Baha’i efforts at tamping down ignition of racism’s consuming fire, an essential extinguisher, a language arranged with utmost care and good-will and far-removed from the tongues of slavery’s overlords, has shamefully gone largely untapped by intellectuals, linguists and politicians — in excess of one century. Not since interbellum decades and when Abdul Baha, Tolstoy, Lu Xun, Verne, Diesel, Tagore, Eiffel and other thinkers in the East and the West called for a second language for all school kids, have academe, the arts, government, the judiciary, the media, the professions or religion seriously investigated the peace-making potential of Esperanto and its non-religious, non-political, non-aligned, anti-racism movement. 9 key paragraphs in Dr. Zamenhof’s 1906 Geneva speech pinpoint his position on Esperantism whose internal idea is the antithesis of racism:
* https://gumroad.com/l/making_world_peace_real/
p. 24-26.
Free online in Esperanto: * https://docplayer.net/98461511-Realigas-la-mondan-pacon-la-bahaa-kredo-kaj-esperanto.html
In 2003 the English edition successfully passed the arduous criteria of Baha’i review at the NSA of the Baha'is of Australia Inc.
In 2003 the English edition successfully passed the arduous criteria of Baha’i review at the NSA of the Baha'is of Australia Inc.
Astoundingly few Baha’i scholars, administrators or artists seem even peripherally aware that Abdul Baha specified a language in common as “the cause of love between the children of men. It will cause GOOD FELLOWSHIP BETWEEN THE VARIOUS RACES”. ( * ibid p. 45) He expanded in explicit reference to Esperanto by instructing: “every one of us must study this language and spread it as far as possible.” (ibid * p. 45) Thus spake He in Paris, France, amid a months’ long media scrum in 1913, as recorded for us and for generations yet unborn in an authoritative Baha’i text translated into hundreds of languages, Baha’i leaders of our time should note, n’est-ce pas!? Alas and alack, in the maximum, for their religion’s anti-racism and language overlap, as penned by One they’ve pledged to obey, remains as opaque to them as their duty at a personal level to rectify or rebut the oversight in question:
"In order to facilitate complete understanding between all people, a universal auxiliary language will be adopted and in the schools of the future two languages will be taught — the mother tongue and this international auxiliary tongue which will be either one of the existing languages, or a new language made up of words from all the languages — the matter to be determined by a confederation met for the purpose which shall represent all TRIBES and nations. This international tongue will be used in the work of the parliament of man — a supreme tribunal of the world which will be permanently established in order to arbitrate international questions. The members of this arbitral court of justice will be representatives of all the countries. It is incumbent upon the nations to obey the commands of this tribunal, for such a tribunal will be under the power of God and for the protection of all men. In all the sacred books where do you find such a statement?” Abdu’l Baha, Divine Philosophy, chapter 2.
(Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, CXV11 (* ibid p.37) and Abdul Baha’s Paris Talks (* ibid p.50) similarly entwine world peace and the auxiliary language principle with this mighty Tribunal.)
Editor, 25-10-2018 & 25-11-2018: Why the editors at BahaiTeachings.org held their readers back today from these three sources that link the parliament of man with the principle of a universal auxiliary language and then refuse to consult or justify said censorship is on their consciences alone: http://bahaiteachings.org/lets-celebrate-united-nations-day-together
God help us!
What’s required as a matter of urgency, without conflating the institutional question of language selection with the individual believer’s duty to obey Abdul Baha, is faith in his statements rather than in our preferences as individuals or in the groupthink notions of academics! In all matters consultation is incumbent upon all followers of Baha’u’llah. How much more important it clearly is concerning a fundamental principle of the Faith that’s vitally linked to routing racism! There’s no doubt about this, and no room for vacillation for thereby the agony persists, Baha’i leaders must note! In other words, several fundamental principles of our religion are intimately intertwined vis-a-vis levelling the playing field for all races for the rest of time: (a) an independent investigation of truth (b) eliminating of racial and linguistic prejudices (3) an international auxiliary language (4) our duty to consult meaningfully (5) our pledge on signing the Declaration Card to obey the Universal House of Justice * and Abdul Baha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
“If the edifice of religion shakes and totters, commotion and chaos will ensue and the order of things will be utterly upset, for in the world of mankind there are two safeguards that protect man from wrongdoing. One is the law which punishes the criminal; but the law prevents only the manifest crime and not the concealed sin; whereas the ideal safeguard, namely, the religion of God, prevents both the manifest and the concealed crime, trains man, educates morals, compels the adoption of virtues and is the all-inclusive power which guarantees the felicity of the world of mankind.” Abdul Baha, Tablet To The Hague. (*p.73) https://bahaigeschiedenis.nl/abdul-baha-tablet-to-the-hague/
Non-white people constitute nearly half of those incarcerated in the prisons of the United States of America.
* In its foremost announcement to the peoples of the world titled The Promise of World Peace, the Universal House of Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_House_of_Justice) unequivocally states with institutional authority: "A fundamental lack of communication between peoples seriously undermines efforts towards world peace. Adopting an international auxiliary language would go far to resolving this problem and necessitates the most urgent attention." (*p.54, p.113) Apparently, ergo, despite sub-optimal Baha’i engagement, the auxlang principle should be a priority whether seen through the lens of the primary Baha’i institution or its central Figures.
(*) See in more detail in Esperanto courtesy of the University of Georgia, USA. http://bahai.uga.edu/Realigas_la_Mondan_Pacon.pdf
The $2:00 English edition successfully passed the arduous requirements of Baha’i review in 2003: (*p) https://gumroad.com/l/making_world_peace_real/ ISBN: 0-646-38643-3
Artikolo de P. Desailly (Novembro 2023) diskutas la rolon de Esperanto en la Bahaa komunumo, menciante Bernhard Westerhoff kaj Ciprian Jauca. Ĝi kritikas la malkreskon de esperantistoj inter bahaanoj kaj la defiojn en la promociado de Esperanto en la movado.
Kio Plej Distingas La Bahaan Kredon De Aliaj Mond-Religioj Igas Aŭstraliajn Bahaajn Gvidantojn* Hipokritulojn Aŭ Nedefendeble Nesciaj
What most distinguishes the Bahai Faith from other world religions renders Australian Bahai leaders* hypocrites OR unconscionably nescient.
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HIPOKRITECO EN RELIGIO. KIAL? HYPOCRISY IN RELIGION. WHY IS IT SO? Paŭlo (ne la Apostolo) Desailly (PD) Paul (not the Apostle) Desailly (PD) EN 1890 BAHA’U’LLAH JAM ESTIS ESPERANTISTO jam temp' está - por forigi hipokritecon en religio https://www.bandeeducation.com/baha-u-llah-was-an-esperantist IN 1890 BAHA’U’LLAH ALREADY WAS AN ESPERANTIST it’s about time – to end hypocrisy in religion!
Paul explains the history and current situation of the relationship between Bahá'ís and Esperanto. English: https://esperanto.org.au/lecture-series-zoom/ Bahaismo kaj Esperanto - tikla rilato Paul Desailly. Aǔstralio. 17 julio 2022. Paǔlo klarigas la historion kaj nunan situacion pri la rilato inter Bahaismo kaj Esperanto. Esperanto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRyfElihjU -----------------------------------------------------------
Paul (not the Apostle) Desailly. Adelaide. Australia. The Ides of March. 2022. Paŭlo (ne la Apostolo) Desailly. Adelajdo. Aŭstralio. La Iduoj Martaj. 2022. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LIMBS OF MANKIND TO QUAKE LA MEMBROJ DE LA HOMO TREMI AND WHEN THE WAR IS OVER IN UKRAINE? https://bahaiforums.com/threads/and-when-the-war-is-over-in-ukraine.25509/ KIO POST LA BOMBARDADO, KANONADO KAJ MISILADO DE UKRAINIO?
“One day, while in Constantinople, [1863] Kamál Páshá [a high ranking Minister of State in the Ottoman court of Sultan ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz (1830–1876, reigned: 1861–1876, abdicated 30th May, murdered five days later)] visited this Wronged One [Bahá’u’lláh]. Our conversation turned upon topics profitable unto man. He said that he had learned several languages. In reply We observed ‘You have wasted your life
(1) THE PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN ESPERANTO ASSOCIATION AND ADELAIDE CITY COUNCILLOR ARMAN ABRAHIMZADEH (OAM) OPEN AN ESPERANTO START-UP, 17 AUG 2021
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