It is pleasing to realise that the United States Baha'i community is actively engaged in purifying itself of this endemic disease of racial discrimination and it needs to be emulated by all Baha'i communities around the planet. Here the destiny of America and of the Baha'i Faith are tightly kintertwined. The nation needs a model of interracial love and unity, based on the principle of the oneness of humanity, to restore confidence that race unity is possible and to give rise to new approaches to the organization of community life. His aim is to start a national campaign of discussion of the means to establish racial justice and unity. The campaign has gotten off to a slow start, raising doubts that meaningful action will result.
Public scepticism is fueled by America's long history of advance and retreat on racial matters.
Over time failed initiatives have caused a steady erosion of public confidence that America will sustain her commitment to eliminate the ingrained racism that cripples the freedom of all its people and jeopardizes the internal order and national security of the nation as a whole. While the legal and material requirements to eradicate racism are well known, its spiritual requirements have been persistently neglected. The Baha'i Teachings state that America should be the first nation to proclaim the oneness of the human family, but the principle of oneness is not yet the force driving the struggle of uniting the races. Our community, which is already interracial and diversified, should examine itself to see how far we have come and what we must now do. It is time for all living human beings to face the most challenging issue of racial discrimination which is eating into vitals of all human efforts to improve the lot of their fellow men.