For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
My mother would often say to us, “Sit your black (expletive) down.” After arguments with my father, she would conclude that, “Niggas ain’t (expletive).” Many African Americans or those who would claim to take pride in blackness use the word black and likewise, nigga derogatorily. In the case of children, it is used to shame and […]
Read MoreI grew up in the South. I was born in Pensacola, Florida but spent most of my teenage years in Foley, Alabama with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We didn’t have a street or a road; instead, we lived on trail. It was named Thomas Trail because our family owned the land at the end of […]
Read MoreWe often say that a picture is worth one thousand words. Well, why is that we have so few in our vocabulary when it comes to race? So few images of cultures different from our own, so few ways of seeing each other outside of race and its stereotypes? Sadly, we really do believe that […]
Read MoreIn his second letter to the Corinthians and in its first chapter, we find a series of seemingly disjointed statements. Paul begins by blessing God for consoling him, thanking God for delivering him from the affliction experienced in Asia, and then he begins to talk to them about his delay regarding travel. It is during […]
Read More“Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ~ Exodus 20.17, HCSB “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, […]
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The Raceless Gospel 