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Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit Paperback - 2001
by Alice Walker
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Alice Walker writes:"Where do we start? How do we reclaim a proper relationship to the world?It is said that in the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual. Then each person in the tribe speaks to the accused, one at a time, about all the good things the person in the center of the circle has done in his lifetime. Every incident, every experience that can be recalled with any detail and accuracy is recounted. All his positive attributes, good deeds, strengths and kindnesses are recited carefully and at length.The tribal ceremony often lasts several days. At the end, the tribal circle is broken, a joyous celebration takes place, and the person is symbolically and literally welcomed back into the tribe. This will not be the fate of Osama bin Laden, accused of masterminding the attack on North America. In a war on Afghanistan, he will either be left alive, while thousands of impoverished, frightened people, most of them women and children and the elderly, are bombed into oblivion around him, or he will be killed in a bombing attack for which he seems, in his spirit—from what I have gleaned from news sources—quite prepared. In his mind, he is fighting a holy war against the United States. To die in battle against it would be an honor. He has been quoted as saying he would like to make the United States into a shadow of itself as he helped make the Soviet Union, which lost the war in Afghanistan, become a shadow of itself. In fact, he appears to take credit for helping the Soviet Union disintegrate. I personally would like him to understand that the shadow he wishes upon us, of poverty, fear, an almost constant state of terror, is merely the America too many of us already know. It is certainly the shadow my ancestors lived with for several hundred years.But what would happen to his cool armor if he could be reminded of all the good, non-violent things he has done? Further, what would happen to him if he could be brought to understand the preciousness of the lives he has destroyed? This is not as simple a question as it might appear. I firmly believe the only punishment that works is love. Or, as the Buddha said: Hatred will never cease by hatred. By love alone is it healed."
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This is one of the epigrams I chose to preface my first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, 1970, which was about the challenge of remaining human under the horrific conditions of American Apartheid in the Southern United States during my parents and grandparents' time.
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- Title Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit
- Author Alice Walker
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition, f
- Pages 80
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York
- Date December 27, 2001
- ISBN 9781583224915 / 1583224912
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 6.75 x 4.25 x 0.18 in (17.15 x 10.80 x 0.46 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Love
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006283359
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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