Dear Racial Me

Race is not all there is to us.  We are not the social coloring of skin.  We are not just epidermis.  There is an inside of us that we barely address, that we rarely acknowledge that is impacted by this overwhelming focus on the external, the outside of us. Frankly, race is no part of […]

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Colored by the number

  Many of us see ourselves as a colored person.  We are black people, white people, red people, brown people, yellow people, beige people.  Well, maybe the first two are true.  The color wheel doesn’t turn beyond black and white for much of America.  Instead, much more of American society and even other parts of […]

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How Race Haunts Us

We are ghost people: ghosts of the past, ghosts of the present, ghosts of the future.  We are the thoughts that we are afraid of.  What we hope does not happen, we create.  We put on sheets and say, “Booooo.” We believe that we are going to be afraid so we live life with the […]

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Bear Witness

Bear witness to the All- Image God, who sees all of us and all of Him in all of us.  There is no center or margin in God, no minority or majority, no insider or outsider, no stranger or immigrant.  There is only God and we are in Him. Bear witness to the Mirror- God, […]

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Racism may be ‘alive and well’ but…

After an incident is determined to be race- related, persons sometimes say, “Racism is alive and well.”  They point to the latest insult that adds to the countless injuries of race- relations. Or worse still, they point to the most recent death by fear, misunderstanding, power struggle and/or prejudice.  Perhaps, with excitement or maybe disappointment, […]

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