This Black History month of February 2026 presents this nation with the greatest challenge of change since the ratification of the 13th Amendment of its Constitution on December 18, 1865, formally abolishing slavery in the United States, as initiated by President Abraham Lincoln.
Despite the undeniable fact that the abysmal state of the economy of the entire nation has never plunged to such depths, millions of American are still unable or unwilling to accept the historic change that occurred with the recent inauguration of out nation.
Absolute repose in nature does not exist we are reminded in the Baha’i Holy Writings. All things make progress of lose ground. Everything moves forward or backward. Nothing is without motion. From birth man progresses physically until reaching maturity then, having arrived at the prime of life, begins to decline until he gradually arrives at the state of death. The same applies to all plant life that progresses from seed to maturing then begins to wane until reaching its state of death.
In its infancy mankind was spiritually strong but scientifically and technologically weak but as the situation revers in finding itself on the brink of self destruction through misappropriation of its wealth and from using all the right discoveries for all the wrong reasons. “As the black pupil gives sight to the eye, so shall the Black people bring religious sight to the world,” we are shockingly also made aware of through the Baha’i Holy Writings of this new era.
When an intellectual, competent man of distinction appears on the political horizon with a demonstrated history of service and love for his family and the family of mankind, he is rejected by those who will not see, the worst kind of limitations – that are of three kinds: those imposed by nature, those imposed by others and those self-imposed, the hardest to change or cope with.
Stubborn resistance to change strips us of achieving fullest potential and robs us of the unimaginable bounties of life. Resistance to change tends to breed rebellion, discontent, disrespect, fear, hatred and easily warring mentality. It also crates a competitive environment that is not conducive to cooperation, thus destroying the very foundation of unit on which all health growth depends.
Each of us is a unique part of a complete whole whether of different races or the same race. Each one possesses different strengths and different weaknesses, as mankind is not perfect.
Therefore the supreme challenge is learning to pool our individual strengths to minimize our collective weaknesses. In the words of Jesse Jackson, “It doesn’t make any different what ship our ancestors came over her on, we’re all in the same boat now.”
Investigate!
