Bethann Hardison Instagram – Eid Mubarak…
As we end the Holy month of Ramadan during this Covid-19 pandemic…and this Memorial Day weekend…much is to be remembered and recognized.
The end of Ramadan is normally joyous and a moment of celebration.
But not this time. As I end the holy fasting, I long to speak with my father to discuss the politics of this current state. My father was a brilliant personality, a very cool and handsome man, who so happen to also be a religious leader, an Imam.
He gave counsel and mentor to Malcolm X at a time Malcolm was faced with conflict. What would they both say now?
I have so many memories of my life with my father, his great guidance of leadership he gave to others.
I realize the importance of these last 30 days, the good you give to others. But also yourself. I have spoken truths to love ones, I have avoided nonsense.
I am currently living in the woods so it has its effects. And now it’s time to remember those who are no longer with us. Specifically today as the New York Sunday Times prints the names of 100,000 who lost their lives to the Corona virus. We are still in that zone because people are still dying.
I pray deeply for those families who lost love ones. I too lost someone, so dear to me, I was here, she was there, alone. Vera Varner, in a way, she let me know she had left this earth. I called to check in, just to check in, no knowledge she was sick, nor was she weak. Just another woman living alone, in Bklyn, of strength and maturity. She had died one week before I made the call. Entered the hospital 4/28 died 5/4…No one holds your hand during this pandemic while you leave this earth. No choice, that’s the way it is, to prevent the virus from spreading.
I wish all our great leaders were alive to witness and weight in on this.
If you have lived long enough, it’s very hard to watch, not the pandemic, but the response. The current political administration is different then it has ever been and who and how to manage, has not been a winning tale.
So I not only pray in memory of those who were taken away, but for those who should do the right thing.
In memory of ALL who gave and lost their lives.
5/2020 | Posted on 24/May/2020 22:01:13
