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.

Christena Cleveland talks about “Paying Privilege Forward”

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She is a graduate of Dartmouth and the associate professor of the practice of reconciliation at Duke Divinity School.  Sharing her personal story, Dr. Christena Cleveland invites us into her life and the reality of the privileges that she received from her parents.  She unpacks the meanings of privilege, challenges the myth of individualism and explains why we need to pray privilege forward.  

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“The Racial Context of Christian Churches in the United States”

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  This is the title of a chapter of Rev. James Ellis III’s newest book Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil: Stories about the Challenges of Young Pastors, where he served as the editor.  It is a book that includes a number of true stories from clergy who may differ in denominational affiliation but all […]

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10 Overused Words in Our Fight for Racial Justice

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Naming is an essential task when telling a story as it allows us to examine behavior, motivations, character traits, historical significance and to make personal connections for healing and growth.  It allows us to connect the dots and to point out patterns.  Properly identifying persons, naming the problems and putting our finger on our reality is paramount. However, it is not […]

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Resurgence of Racism: Baptist Conference on Unity Planned

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Former President Jimmy Carter and founder of the New Baptist Covenant has long accepted the call to the ministry of reconciliation and sees the spike in race- related incidents as a call to serve this generation.  Seeing race as apart of the attacks on the Obama presidency and the rise of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate […]

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Where’s the problem?

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Talking about race may be easier than seeing race, especially when it could hit close to home.  Despite the increased visibility of racist interactions or racialized incidents (to the credit of cell phones and social media), seeing the race problem around us or even within us might prove harder to see.  And it does not […]

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