Friday, September 16, 2016

The White Mormon and the Black Muslim – A Tale of Serendipity

Kente (Batik) Cloth in Market - Kumasi - GhanaThis story, written by Lee Davidson, originally appeared in the Deseret News in Salt Lake City in 1997.

The woman seemed as different from me as possible when she entered the branch LDS Church Family History Center where I volunteer in suburban Maryland.

I am a white, male Mormon who was wearing a business suit. She is black American and wore Kente cloth (in colorful African tribal designs) with a veil that showed she is Muslim.

But we would soon find that we have everything important in common. And maybe, just maybe, we even tripped into an overlooked key on how America can better overcome racial tension.

To read the rest of the story, see Lee Davidson, “Startling Encounter is Reminder We Are All Family,” Deseret News (18 June 1997), p. A9, cols. 1-5; (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19970618&id=cu5LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mOwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6551,4479081&hl=en : accessed 20 August 2016).


Credit David Rencher for pointing me to this story.
Image credit: Adam Jones, “File:Kente Kumasi 2010-06-30.jpg,” image, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org : 9 November 2014). CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

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