Promise the Children At Second Parish in Hingham in October
How Are the Children?
Sue Kirby, Promise the Children
Second Parish in Hingham, http://www.secondparish.org
October 16, 2011
Reading: How Are the Children?
— Kasserian Ingera
Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising then to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Masai warriors. “Kasserian ingera” one would always say to another. It means “and how are the children?
We honor Dr. King today in stone. Let us honor him tomorrow and every day—for as long as it takes—with powerful, persistent voices and unrelenting nonviolent action to rescue his dream - America’s dream - from the clutches of materialism, militarism, racism and poverty he warned would be America’s undoing.