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.

ARC’s Facing Race Conference in Baltimore

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The Applied Research Center is hosting the 2012 Facing Race Conference in Baltimore, Maryland from November 15-17, 2012.  “Facing Race is a conference like no other– it is the largest national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists, and activists on racial justice. Attendees share their knowledge on advocating for racial justice in all walks […]

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Perspective

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What is race doing with our lives?  What is race doing to our lives?  What is race doing for our lives?  What are its benefits, the reasons that we continue to employ it, to keep it, to depend on it? What have we done with our lives, to our lives and to the lives of […]

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We are responsible for the racist

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“…I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.  Something in the man knows– must know– that what he is doing is evil; but in order to accept the knowledge the man would have to change.  What is ghastly and really almost hopeless in our racial situation now is that the crimes […]

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How Prayer Answers the Question of the Meaning of Life

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In a chapter titled “The Discipline of Meditation- Prayer” from James Earl Massey’s Spiritual Disciplines: A Believer’s Openings to the Grace of God, we learn that “the deepest meanings of selfhood are realized when a person is with God.  The self reaches its highest expression when one prays.  Realized order marks the path of an individual who […]

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Mandela’s Last Supper

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Allan Boesak, co- author of Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism, recently brought this image to my attention.  I  was in attendance at Howard University’s School of Divinity’s 96th Annual Alumni Convocation for which he and Curtiss DeYoung were the guest speakers.  Boesak shared with us his insights on race, South African apartheid […]

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