For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“By the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it your were taken; you are dust and to dust you shall return.” {Genesis 3.19, NRSV} Perhaps, Ash Wednesday should be every day for we need to be reminded of what we are really made of. […]
Read More“White people have not always been ‘white,’ nor will they always be ‘white.’ It is a political alliance. Things will change.” {Amoja Three Rivers} I begin with whiteness because all of the other social colors define themselves by it. In fact, the other social colors exist for it. Whiteness depends on blackness, for example, for […]
Read MoreHe was seventeen years old. He was murdered five years ago today. He was a child, never to become a man. Leonard Pitts writes a searing op- ed that asks, “Trayvon Martin had to be guilty of something, right?” I cried as I read the article. The answer is no but many Americans needed him […]
Read More“Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience.” ~ James Baldwin, “Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes,” 1959 In recent days, I have been reading the writings of noted author […]
Read More“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’ clock on Sunday morning.” {Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.} Last month, Barna released a report on the differences in spiritual progress according to the social construct of race. I had planned to discuss this sooner but was distracted, namely by the protests after our most recent […]
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The Raceless Gospel 