This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. In part two of my interview with Giancaudadad, he breaks down the tenants of the Bahai faith, which he follows.

And he also talks about the arc of the soul and what our purpose is as human beings, which is to serve one another.

We recently had lunch and we were talking about his faith, of course, in the Bahawala, and the

writings of the Bahawala, and I asked him to send me some of them.

And among the writings that he sent me was a letter from

Abdul Bahas grandson, Shogi Offendy,

who wrote in 1938 about America's racism.

It's a powerful thing, and I'm going to read just one paragraph.

Shogi Offendy wrote as to racial prejudice the corrosion of which for

well nigh a century has bitten into the fabric and attack the whole social structure of American society.

It should be regarded as constituting the most vital and challenging issue confronting the

Baha'i community at the present stage of his evolution.

The ceaseless exertion which this issue of paramount importance calls for,

the sacrifices it must impose, the care and vigilance it demands. The moral courage and fortitude it requires

the tact and sympathy it necessitates. Invest this problem, which the American believers are still far from having satisfactorily

resolved with an urgency and importance that cannot be overestimated. This man was

charging his whole entire community to take up the mantle of racism and eradicated.

One man, I'm asking everybody listening to my voice, those of you who are of the global

majority, those of you who are among the oppressed in this country

around the issues of race and racism,

keep fighting vigilantly, but more importantly,

stay focused on your personal, individual,

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