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.

The road taken versus the road found

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“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction and there are many who take it.  For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life and there are few who find it.” ~ Matthew 7.13-14, NRSV Apart of the insightful […]

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Race Fact #4

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Race as a category for identity or a means by which to identify one’s self is a modern concept. “The very category of ‘race’– denoting primarily skin color– was first employed as a means of classifying human bodies by Francois Bernier, a French physician, in 1684.  The first authoritative racial division of humankind is found in the […]

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Genetics and the Concept of Race

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Evolutionary geneticist, Dr. Richard Lewontin, speaks at the Hitchcock Lectures at UC Berkely on race and genetics, the effects of migration, invasion, conquest and subsequent rape.  He asserts that race is a “social reality” but not a biological reality, that there is no single gene that differentiates one so- called race from another.  Lewontin says, “We don’t […]

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How Race Survived U.S. History

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The incomparable David Roediger talks about race in the United States.  He is an exceptional scholar on race and whiteness studies.

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I have a question

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Why are the following statements true? “By and large, the people who have been the racists of the modern world have also been Christians or the heirs of Christian civilization.  Among large numbers of Christians, racism has been the other faith or one of the other faiths” (George D. Kelsey, Racism and the Christian Understanding […]

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