Miracle Worker
an Underfable
Once upon a time, an Activist said to a Rastafarian, “If only the Whites would pay reparations to the Blacks! Then we could forget history, and there would be peace, harmony and justice.”
The Rastafarian said, “I will work on this.” He then performed holy rites to contact the spirit of One Love. He chanted, he danced, he sacrificed great quantities of sacred herb.
After a week he emerged from the mystic mist, and he told the Activist, “I have good news. The Blacks are willing to accept!”
Moral: Work half done is work undone.
Comment: This fable is a cover of a tale from the Yiddish joke-lore, about a wonder-working rabbi, the rich, and the poor. The Rastafarian was a holy fool, but the Activist was also foolish, for he wished to forget history.
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