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.

Robert Griffin III and Authentic Blackness

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“Is he a brother or a cornball brother?” asked ESPN’s Rob Parker.  He was questioning the so- called blackness of the Washington Pigskins quarterback, Robert Griffin III, because apparently there are qualifiers, though stereotypical (i.e. You cannot have a socially colored white fiancee and you cannot be Republican.), for authentic blackness. For Parker, RG III […]

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Before

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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” ~ Jeremiah 1.5, NRSV How does God know us?  This opening statement of God’s calling of the Old Testament weeping prophet Jeremiah says that God knows us a part […]

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Welcome to Our Race-less World

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On Friday, November 23, 2012, the newest member of our family, John Curtis McNeill, III was born.  We are grateful to God for his life, its strength and its ministry.  It is our prayer and our heart’s desire that we would serve as examples of the truth that God has revealed to us regarding race […]

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I Just Had to Say It

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I couldn’t say black or white or red or yellow or beige or brown anymore.  I just couldn’t refer to people by social colors, pretending that their skin offered some innate, inherent meaning, that it suggested the manner in which they should be viewed and subsequently treated.  I didn’t believe in race and there was […]

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“You’re Dark-Skinned” So You’ll Have to Work Harder

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This is what Denzel Washington told his daughter, Olivia, who is currently a student at NYU as shared with the Hollywood Reporter and posted on the Color Lines website: “I tell my daughter — she’s at NYU — I say: ‘You’re black, you’re a woman, and you’re dark-skinned at that. So you have to be a […]

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