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.

Enslaved

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Enslaved Elma Stuckey (1907-1988)   His only slave freed and gone,  Red necked cracker all alone,  No crop to plant, no crop to reap,  All his troubles piled so steep.   Barefoot, ragged, hurting, sick,  Just a meat skin now to lick. Stomach empty, tightened belt, Hunger’s for niggers, so he felt.   “Boy”, he […]

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Race Fact #9

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There is only one Caucasian.  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the “father of craniology”, “coined the word Caucasian to describe the white race.  It is curious that this word– which is still widely used– is based upon a single skull in Blumenbach’s collection which came from the Caucasian mountain region of Russia.  Blumenbach found strong resemblances between […]

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Did you know?

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Okay, so I’m a few days late.  But, I didn’t know that March 21 is the “International Day for the Elimination of Racism.”  The date was chosen to mark the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre that occurred on this day in 1960 in Sharpeville, South Africa.

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Light up the world

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“A church that doesn’t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being preached-what kind of gospel is that? Very nice, pious considerations that don’t bother anyone, that’s the […]

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Hosanna!

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“The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord– the King of Israel!’  Jesus found a young donkey […]

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