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.

Race Is No Mystery

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The human being is no mystery.  There are witnesses to our beginning and our end, persons who have gone before us and who will follow, persons to bring us into the world and to carry us out of it.  Our ignorance of each other does not mean that we are not known or able to […]

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I Just Want To See

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I cannot trust these eyes Seeing what they are told  I hope one day they will belong to me Before I get too old   To use this body redefined Labeled with checked boxes and color lines To catch a glimpse of reality while there’s still time If only for a little while    I just want […]

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The Only One Drop Rule

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“For on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you; from all of your sins you will be clean before the Lord.” ~ Leviticus 16.30 “For the life of the creature is in the blood and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since […]

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Forgiving Race

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“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.” ~ Euripides “He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends.” ~ Proverb 17.9 The Christian life begins with forgiveness.  It is the entryway to God.  We come to know God through the reconciliatory […]

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A Pilgrimage to the New Self

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“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.” ~Frederick Buechner Dorothy Ranaghan says that Christian spirituality is “a plan, a means, an attempt to find a way of living every day in growing union with God.”  The Christian life is […]

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