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.

Our Problems with Diversity

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It’s amazing the transformation that the United States of America has undergone in such a short span of time.  Once an outwardly segregationist empire, capitalism has changed the way that we do business.  There are inter-cultural services being offered and businesses owned by persons of various cultural backgrounds share the same block and sometimes building […]

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There’s no such thing

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There is no such thing as a good or true stereotype.   A stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”  It is “an image perpetuated without change” that may or may not be based in an actual experience.  It is a “solid […]

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Change the name now

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A new website, http://www.changethenamenow.org, is calling for the NFL to change the name of its Washington, D.C. football team because the name ‘redskin’ is a racial slur.  They have included a petition and hopes: That the Washington NFL franchise changes its name, mascot and logo; That the franchise develops a public educational campaign on the […]

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Thankful for Race?

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O, give thanks to race for it is good and its stereotypes endure forever.  God forbid. Exactly why are we so thankful for race, so proud to be black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige?  And why are we content with being racial beings/ colored people, passing down the names and stereotypes of our culture and […]

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More than a game

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The Washington Post writer Eugene Robinson reminds us in “Hail to the Washingtons” that it’s not just about sports and we cannot continue to play the game of race (i.e. denial, silent acceptance, blame- shifting, ‘historical fantasy’) as usual.  The use of the racial slur ‘red skin’ is inappropriate in every other context and should never […]

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