How long have those indigenous to the what is now the United States been on reservations? “As early at 1653, the English had begun the system of reservations– assigning each warrior fifty acres of land and the privilege of hunting in unoccupied territory.” ~ Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America, p. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
“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 […]