For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
Persons use incidents like the tragic and unfortunate death of Mr. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri to say that we are not ready for a post- racial America. They shout down the word, shake their hands and heads at those who use it– both angered and saddened at our ignorance and naivete. They seem to […]
Read More… 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 […]
Read More“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– […]
Read MoreLife 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 […]
Read More“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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