For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Martin, don’t let anybody ever tell you you’re not a Somebody.” It’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s foundational childhood story. His grandmother instilled a core belief in his own worth, which remains a critical teaching in the African American community. Somebodiness was popularized by King but dates to chattel slavery. “The essence of ante-bellum black religion […]
Read MoreAmerica was never a group project. In fact, in practice, the country acted independently of those indigenous to Turtle Island and created laws to ensure that Africans and African Americans could not contribute. This democratic project remains restricted to a particular demographic: men racialized as white. There have always been competing visions of inclusion, unity […]
Read MoreOn March 26, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution promoted by Ghana and the African Union, designating the European Transatlantic Slave Trade and the chattel enslavement of Africans and African Americans as the “gravest crime against humanity.” Opponents, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, took semantic issue with […]
Read MoreAmerica is turning 250 in a few months and the Trump administration is taking its citizens down memory lane. Kidnapping and killing citizens and immigrants, converting warehouses to concentration camps, rolling back women’s rights, suppressing votes, and reengraving the hierarchies of race and gender, executive actions all taken to get the country back to its […]
Read MoreWoe to the North American church! A segregated fellowship, the Raceless Gospel calls this “whited sepulcher” to address the deadly sin of white-body supremacy, a reckoning hundreds of years in the making. Because the church in North America must become a faithful and prophetic witness against the vocal and virulent voices of those who animate […]
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