The Raceless Gospel

The ruminations of an ex- colored woman

Christian discipleship: Pledging allegiance in America

September 21, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

During my junior year of high school, I couldn’t bring myself to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I had been following the footnotes on African American history for awhile now as the history unit only addressed slavery and a few key leaders from the Civil Rights Movement. The end read more like “to be continued” because there was no happily […]

Race Fact #10

April 10, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

How long have those indigenous to the what is now the United States been on reservations? “As early at 1653, the English had begun the system of reservations– assigning each warrior fifty acres of land and the privilege of hunting in unoccupied territory.” ~ Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America, p. […]