Healing the Rift between Blacks and Jews on Holocaust Day [VIDEO]
A. N. Pierson says:
“I am another who is not always for kumbaya, but found this affecting. It made me think — if there is no kumbaya, what then?”
I prefer to unsetimentalize the whole kumbaya thing by regarding it as a simple responsibility, defined as “rights begin where love ends”. We are not called upon to love and care for all in the same way we care for our closest and most chreished friends. But we are called upon to act on the benevolent instinct that inclines us towards others who are distressed in any which way. It is our responsibility to stock that benevolent disposition well, and make sure that our society does not run on the bare structucture of law and order alone. For a society to be a society, a human convergence of interests and individuals, the lowest form of friendship (caring for other people’s rights) is a must.
