Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
ABERJHANICompassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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