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 Not My Reality

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“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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Ten Things Your ‘Race’ Cannot Tell You

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1. Race cannot tell you the purpose of your life.  The social color of your skin is not a crystal ball, a sign of good fortune or an omen of back luck.  The prophet Jeremiah records the voice of the Lord saying, “I know the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare, not for […]

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Made In Whose Image?

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“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals, all the earth and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” ~Genesis 1.26 My husband and I have not been living in our new apartment a […]

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Skin Shallow

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Skin doesn’t talk Your conversation is imaginary Hearing things But no one is speaking to each other Seeing things But no one is moving toward each other   Our skin separates us  But no one is touching the surface of the possibility of reality, of humanity

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Something On The Inside

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I’ve got something on the inside, working on the outside.  Oh, what a change in my life! I’ve got something on the inside, working on the outside.  Oh, what a change in my life!     My convictions regarding race and its social power/lessness are grounded in my life and relationship with Jesus Christ.  It is because […]

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