I am most frustrated by those who attempt to pull me back into what has been thought before concerning race. Don’t they notice the name of the blog? Clearly, I am beyond it. I am moving in a different direction: forward. And I don’t see the need in talking about the past if that is […]
Luke writes, “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.”[1] “O God of earth and altar,”[2] of blessing and sacrifice, our “living hope”[3] in […]
It’s not easy. We are familiar with and know the feel of the social construct of race. We know what to expect of it and for all the faults that we find with race, we are too familiar with its prejudices, too accustomed to its stereotypes, too comfortable with the life lived racially to let […]
While I understand the angst, disgust and frustration of those who hear the word post- racial and point quickly to the latest example of racialized injustice (also known as hubris, selfishness, self and other- hatred and self- deception), I struggle with communicating my need to move past the social construct of race. I am tired of […]
Beauty,[byoo-tee], noun “the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind,whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).” I have posted signs and made appeals. I have searched all kinds […]