This is a song the great Mahalia Jackson, God rest her soul, sang at the March on Washington. “I have been buked and scorned”-“Ik ben verloochend en geminacht.”
Yes, that is the history of our West-African ancestors and their descendents in the Americas, the history of Trans-Atlantic slavery. And ofcourse also the history of the Trans-Saharan slavery, of Muslim and Arab slavery.
She asks God the rhetorical question what she has done wrong. Well, I can answer it. Being born in a black skin.
There is nothing more beautiful than a sincere, mystical love of God, and social & racial justice activism combined with religion and/or spirituality.
Preach, sister, preach! Takbir! La fawzan illa billah – No victory except through God.
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