For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I am often amazed at how quickly persons will rise to defend race as if I have offended a family member, a childhood friend or perhaps even a spouse when I question the authenticity of the relationship or the intentions of race for their life. They take a sense of ownership in race, which ultimately […]
Read MoreYesterday, I discussed Du Bois’ concept of double- consciousness, this sense of two- ness that is created in the life of one who defines herself or himself as an American Negro, a Black American, an African American or any identity that is a combination of both country and color. The identities do not support one another and can be mutually exclusive as one […]
Read More“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” ~ James 1.8, KJV “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels […]
Read MoreRace does more with us than we do with it and I have surmised today that it is useless. For what progress can we make with a belief that holds everyone back, including those it claims to elevate and empower? What can truly be gained in utilizing a worldview that focuses on the external appearance of humanity to the […]
Read More“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.” ~Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, wrote these words in a letter to the poet Countee Cullen. But, much like Paul’s letters […]
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The Raceless Gospel 