Race Fact #20: DuBois On Personal Whiteness
Being or rather becoming a white person is not natural or self- evident. “The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s people is a very modern thing.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Read MoreAuthor: 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 #19: Defining Race Again and Again
Race must be defined again and again. It is in so doing that race is not allowed to redefine us. We must continue to remind ourselves of what race is. This will also inform us as to what race is not. If we do not maintain this practice, we will be subjected to its power […]
Read MoreRace Fact #18: Whiteness As Personal Property
Whiteness is personal “property” not a physical reality. “As late as the beginning of the seventeenth century, male northern European elites did not see themselves as physically white, and were further from imagining that the word ‘white’ had uses as a noun. …The notion that one could own a skin color– what the legal scholar […]
Read MoreWho’s hiring?: Race’s Resume
Race Address: Our minds Education All the fields of inquiry have associated themselves with me, attempting to prove my origin, determine my purpose and influence Objective To further the social gospel of race or the belief that some human beings, based on the social coloring of skin and […]
Read MoreDying Daily to Race
“I die daily.” ~ First Corinthians 15.31 Funerals. No one likes them, right? Well, except for morticians perhaps! And death, like politics and religion, is a subject to be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Whether it is because of the resultant grief, the mystery that shrouds it or fear of our own demise, death is not […]
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The Raceless Gospel 