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.

“Give Me Your Eyes”: How Race Defiles Us

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… for they will see God.” Unlike most persons I talk to, I think about race in order to discern ways to never think about it again.  I talk about race in order to eradicate it from conversations about human identity and the ways in which we relate to each other.  I assert that we […]

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Seeing is Saying

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“I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore.  What is reality?  Nothing but a collective hunch?” ~ Lily Tomlin “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization.” ~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek “All the world is window.  No material is opaque.  If we are willing to see– people, circumstances, situations, relationships– […]

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Pray Hard

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Life is the matter of words. It is the collection, the compilation, the composition of letters ordered and then defined by punctuation marks. We speak with both the end and the receiver in mind. We speak to move and to move on again and again. Thus, we can no more stop talking than we can […]

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Never Be The Same

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“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” ~ Galatians 2.19-20, NRSV We call ourselves baptized […]

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A Trip Down Race-less Memory Lane

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I have written a lot about race and race-lessness these past three years.  So, I decided to reflect on a few of the posts that surprised me most in their creation and those that have been most read  my you, my readers.  I’ll try to keep the list short but it’s really hard to pick […]

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