For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“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 […]
Read More“I am beige, brown, black, red, yellow, white.” What do we mean when we define ourselves by the social coloring of skin? Because calling yourself a color will not answer who you are. And the social construct of race does not tell us who or why we are but what we are– colored people. More it […]
Read More“Mirror, mirror on the wall… Whiteness is the fairest of them all.” What do we need or expect to see of ourselves that calls for the social construct of race? What of our humanity is made visible, evident, real when we become colored people? What can we not see without the lens of race? What […]
Read MoreToday is the Harlem Renaissance writer, busboy and poet’s birthday. Born in 1902, his words remind us that while we deem ourselves progressive, the words of Ecclesiastes still hold true: “There is nothing new under the sun” (1.9). In honor of his life and proof that we have a lot of work to do are the […]
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