Category: Post- racial

Now You’re Thinking

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I am most frustrated by those who attempt to pull me back into what has been thought before concerning race.  Don’t they notice the name of the blog?  Clearly, I am beyond it. I am moving in a different direction: forward.  And I don’t see the need in talking about the past if that is […]

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Does race make me look smaller?

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I have a big name.  Starlette.  Just thinking about the meaning of my name gives me the motivation to get out of bed when I would rather hide under it, tired of being busy, tired of moving and being.  It is inspirational and I feel that when my name is said, I am called to […]

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The Separation of Church and Race

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It is my life’s purpose to encourage persons to hang this sign on their soul in response to race, its stereotypes and prejudices: Do not enter.  While I believe that God is without boundary, that God cannot be limited or restricted by the designations of society and culture, that God’s Being cannot be changed, I […]

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Unpacking the baggage of race

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The American racial identity is baggage.  It is a bunch of small containers for our humanity that transport us to the destiny of history.  Race is a round trip backward. There is so much to race, so much that we have to hold on to and positions that we cannot let go.  Race is cumbersome […]

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A Call for Living Stones

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“Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” ~ I Peter 2.4-5, NRSV His name means rock.  Peter, known […]

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