For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
There is so much talk about our inability to be post- racial. Just the mention of the world will cause persons to recount the various deeds of racism and to conclude that we are tragically bound to our flesh and its attributes, that we are the social coloring of skin. These persons speak of race’s […]
Read More“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again an again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]
Read MoreBaptist News Global has asked me to write a monthly column for their “Perspectives” page and I have accepted. Of course. I am so grateful to the editor, Robert Dilday and the staff for the opportunity to share my perspective on the social construct of race and its intersections as it relates to our Christian […]
Read MoreRace is a modern invention of the European Enlightenment: “European Enlightenment thinkers retained the Greek ideal of reason, as well as this reason’s categorical function of discriminating between the cultured (now called the ‘civilized) and the ‘barbarian’ (the ‘savage’ or the ‘primitive’). It can be argued, in fact, that the Enlightenment’s declaration of itself as […]
Read MoreRace allows us to categorize people, to lump entire human populations together, to pack them into overcrowded boxes and store them in the socioeconomic basement of our society. Race helps us to forget our commonality as human beings, “out of sight, out of mind.” It focuses on and creates more differences than even exist in […]
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The Raceless Gospel 