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.

The Good News of the Race-less Life

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Tomorrow will be the last day of my leadership training with the Foundations of Christian Leadership program and I am grateful for the numerous opportunities to assess, reflect upon and discuss this unique and special ministry that I have been entrusted with.  My colleagues have truly been gifts and I am so grateful for their […]

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Talk To Yourself

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This week, I’m at the Avila Retreat Center in Durham, North Carolina, attending the first of three, one week intensives for Duke’s Foundations of Christian Leadership program.  This afternoon, we were provided with a much needed opportunity for reflection, often scarce in our ministry settings.  After answering a series of questions during a guided journaling […]

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Just Won’t Let Me Be

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If I sing, I am a minstrel Can’t dance, won’t smile because I’m “shuckin’ and jivin’” If I don’t, I am an “angry black woman”   Can’t cook without Aunt Jemima’s head scarf Can’t eat without watermelon and fried chicken   If I tell the truth, I am an Uncle Tom If I don’t, it […]

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The Past

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She is ugly But no one will say it to her face I suspect it’s not polite   When she enters, everyone nods and smiles But, they’re not glad to see her It’s not really nice to meet her They are not glad she could make it But had rather hoped she would not Now […]

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We Could All Use “The Help”

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Last weekend, I read Kathryn Stockett’s book The Help.  Intrigued by the title and wanting to hear their side of the story, my interest only increased when I turned to the back cover to discover that the author was a European American woman.  I thought, This is going to be good.  But, while reading her […]

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