Author: Starlette Thomas, Race Abolitionist

Seeking to lead words and people to their highest and most authentic expression, I am the principal architect of a race/less world.

Leaving Captivity

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Caged.  That’s what I feel like when I begin to talk about life lived according to race.  My voice even starts to constrict and my palms start to sweat. Sure, I can move but only so far and I can see and be seen but my vantage point is very limited.  My world is shaped […]

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God Did His Best

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God did His best when He created each of us.  Race cannot improve upon us.  And there is nothing that race adds to us that takes away from what God has given us and who God has called us to be.  When God said us, spoke us into being that settled us. No hesitation.  No […]

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Do Something About Race

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Race is so hard for us to comprehend, so difficult for us to get our heads around and our lives out of.  It’s sticky and it has gotten on everything that we come into contact with.  We have been talking about race for hundreds of years and still, we cannot get it off of us. […]

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The Theological Problem of Race

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“For ‘In him we live and move and have our being.’” ~ Acts 17.28, NRSV Persons may wonder how I can talk about race the way that I do.  For me, it is a matter of allegiance.  I recognized some time ago that I could not serve God and believe in race.  I had to […]

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A Prayer for the “Undocumented”

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Dear God, whose presence and power are documented on every living thing.  We confess that we are Creator- carrying members of the earth.  And You are indivisible– not a country or state to be voted in, a territory to be claimed or conquered.  There are no boundaries or borders, no entries or exits, no fences […]

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