Race Fact #21: Humanity’s origin is not animals

Humans, specifically those of African descent, do not derive from apes. It’s a tradition of race not a scientific fact. “In 1699, the web of legend and unverified fact was disentangled by Edward Tyson, whose comparative study of a young ‘orang- outang’ was a masterwork of critical scientific investigation.  Throughout his dissection of the chimpanzee, […]

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If God were black

“Wishing He I served were black,  Thinking then it would not lack Precedent of pain to guide it,  Let who would or might deride it,  Surely then this flesh would know Yours had borne a kindred woe. Lord I fashion dark gods too,  Daring even to give you Dark despairing features where,  Crowned with dark […]

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Cheerio!

A Cheerios commercial depicting a multiethnic family has prompted racist responses on social media.  USA Today reports that “Hate talk won’t derail mixed- race Cheerios ad.”  Cheerio!

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Train up a child?

The Bible teaches us in the Old Testament book of Proverbs to “train children in the right way and when old, they will not stray” (22.6).  So what am I to make of this story?  Fifth grade students were separated into two groups, “masters” and “slaves,” in an Ohio classroom in an attempt to reenact the […]

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The God We Don’t Believe In

“‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.  If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come […]

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