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.

Race Fact #29: ‘Cultural Pre- Understanding’

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“One of the more difficult hurdles for us to overcome in developing and applying biblical theology from the Scriptures is the ever- constant intrusion of ‘cultural pre- understanding’ into our interpretive and applicational process.  ‘Cultural pre- understanding’ is the tendency for us to interpret the biblical material through the lenses of our own personal cultural […]

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Race Fact #28: Nations Not Races

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The Bible lists the nations that descended from Noah– not races (Genesis 10).  God divides humanity into nations; we have divided ourselves into races.

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Race Fact #27: A Nation Familiar With Racism

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“It is racism with which we are, as a nation, familiar, even if we remain sadly naive as to the depths of its depravity.” ~ Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

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Passing Down a Race-less Faith

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I am a new mother of an eight month old charming boy named John and as protective as they come.  No one is exempt from my scrutiny.  I even subjected my husband to a job interview of sorts before leaving them home alone for the first time.  “How many diapers have you changed?  How many […]

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Race Fact #26: Thomas Jefferson On Race

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“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, the the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in endowments both of body and mind.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785

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