ex-l wrote:Skin tone and caste are so wound up together in Indian culture.
Neither are we to overlook the premium that is placed (misplaced?) on lighter shades of blackness and un-kinking of the hair that can be evidenced within the Black diaspora itself. I mention this with reference to historical fact and contemporary trends. Why I remember back-in-the-day when some of my firend's mothers would go to the hairdressers and get their hair 'pressed' with a heated iron comb and then set in curlers
so that it could be styled in the manner of those ladies in the magazines.
ex-l wrote:Are BBBKs used the same way the Aryan League BKs are to do VIP service? Do you feel patronized or used as a token? Does the BK in the West feel "White" rather than universal?
Come on BBBK's share with us whether you feel that the BKWSU system utilises you on the basis of appearance in this way? And as for whether BK feels "White"? My guess would be that the BKWSU does not feel white to a BBBK resident in the West. But for sure there aint much that is 'rootsy' about the BKWSU, except for that which a particular student gleans in her/his own churning of Baba's knowledge. I used to listen on in amazement to hear some students comment about the dearth of BBBK in the and around the centres that i went to. I would chuckle to myself remembering Baba's often stated remark to us in the Murli "blah, blah, blah is not like going to your aunty's home'. Imagine a great influx of souls in black body to the BKWSU whereupon they find that they are being tutored to become soul conscious rather than soulfully conscious!
Talking of which I observed a Brother one year in Madhuban resplendent in his dreadlocks; next time i saw him there he did not even have an afro! "Wah Baba", I said to myself, "Raja Yoga mek de Brother fire the locks dem! Or was it a Dadi who made that?" OOooppppsss!
Anyway, ites to all the Dread and One love all the time because you know seh dat dread is in the heart and not upon the head, Jah Rastafari! Ever-living, Ever-faithful, Ever-Sure.
I do not think that the BK's do 'tokens' very well. Remember that this very much depends on the intellect of the individual selected to co-ordinate a particular activity. So if they have a limited vision towards anything chances are that the 'product' will also reflect that.
I might be talking absolute rubbish here but i think that that the BKWSU systems typically encourage souls that show an ability to communicate across 'classes/gender' rather than "inter-racially". With the absence of any real training in the BKWSU it is therefore very much down to a particular soul's God given talents. The more aptitude a soul seems to have as a communicator/speaker - allied of course with dept of understanding Baba's knowledge - the more opportunities and invitations will come that soul's way (which reminds me that you can catch AbeK on a BKWSU platform in ... oh well sorry i cant blow my cover.)
ex-l wrote:The other is more spiritualistic. Many other seers have given each race, or even major civilisations, a different soul colour karmically grouping them together. That is, if we agree all soul is the same, something more to do with the spirit perhaps. What is the BK creation myth surrounding a black birth?
If there is a BK creation myth it has not been uncovered in my earshot ... yet! Shall we create one?! Why not share some more of your thoughts/knowledge on this score? I wwill think some too.
ex-l wrote:Dark skinned or black used to be synonymous with ugly, as in Shyam Sunder Krishna and I understand the Murlis have been 'politically-correctized' a little in this department.
Maybe I start here next time ...
Thanks for your input ex-l and Paul I enjoyed brainstorming those ideas.