For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
Unlearning race and undoing racism is hard and time- consuming work. It is a challenging work because it requires confrontation. But, wait! Before you start to clear your throat to recite what you would tell someone else about how “they” have treated you, let me interject. It requires self- confrontation. Race is always personal first. […]
Read MoreRace frustrates me for many reasons but one that I can’t seem to make sense of is the repetition. Race has not said anything new about any human being to date. And I’m tired of hearing the same old story of us versus them, the same old fears: they are going to get you or […]
Read MoreI’ve done a lot of reading on race and its progeny, on the effects of our hatreds, on the traditions of prejudice. As a child, it began as an interest, a hobby. I was naturally drawn to things that were race- related. Not dolls, miniature kitchen sets or even sports but books, movies, pictures that […]
Read MoreRelevant, adj. 1. closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand Race is not timeless. It is not a classic. It will go out of style just as soon as we, humans, stop fashioning ourselves according to the social coloring of skin. We call ourselves progressive but can’t believe that we will ever get […]
Read MoreWe are ghost people: ghosts of the past, ghosts of the present, ghosts of the future. We are the thoughts that we are afraid of. What we hope does not happen, we create. We put on sheets and say, “Booooo.” We believe that we are going to be afraid so we live life with the […]
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The Raceless Gospel 