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.

Out of Order

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Our skin was made for us.  We were not made for our skin.  Consequently, it is not our skin that must change but our additional uses for it.  Skin was not added to us to shape, determine or influence our identity.  Its social coloring does not say who we are or who we will be. […]

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When I Worship

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I’m just returning to my hotel room in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where I am serving as a speaker and workshop facilitator this weekend.  Tonight, I performed a spoken word piece titled “When I Worship” and have been asked to publish it on the blog so here it is. When I worship, time sits still and waits […]

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A Prepackaged Existence

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God is not a part of race and does not give it meaning. God does not lend His support to the work of race and race cannot use God as a reference despite our attempts to locate race in sacred Scripture. God wants nothing to do with race and it is my mission to create […]

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Conquering Race

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“No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him (Christ Jesus) who loved us.” ~Romans 8.37 If we are more than conquerors in Christ, then why are we so easily defeated by race?  Why do its stereotypes so easily disarm us of our convictions?  Why do we take on its prejudices, turning […]

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There Will Be Hurdles

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Many persons celebrated the Labor Day weekend with backyard barbecues, Labor Day shopping, evening concerts and… hair appointments.  This coming weekend, I will serve as one of the guest speakers for Sharon Bible Fellowship’s women’s retreat and we will be traveling to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to share in the theme “Fit for the Master’s Use” (II Timothy 2.21).  I […]

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