As reported by Crystal Wright of Townhall.com, according to the Congressional Black Caucus chairman Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, the “pride” felt regarding President Obama’s socially constructed blackness is more important than holding him accountable for failing to address the social and economic needs of African Americans. Because he’s “black,” he is excused from accountability and criticism.
The members of First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Mississippi who recently drew cultural scrutiny of their Christian witness after preventing an African American couple from wedding at the church has offered an apology and asked for forgiveness. Dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Russell D. Moore said […]
Apparently, at the the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the members (at least five or six of them) need to know what race you are. In the church’s 150 year history, there has never been an African American couple to wed there and that won’t change– at least […]
“To perpetuate privilege and oppression, we don’t have to do anything consciously to support it. Just our silence is crucial for ensuring its future, for the simple fact is that no system of privilege can continue to exist without most people choosing to remain silent about it…As such, we can only choose how to be […]
We often say that a picture is worth one thousand words. Well, why is that we have so few in our vocabulary when it comes to race? So few images of cultures different from our own, so few ways of seeing each other outside of race and its stereotypes? Sadly, we really do believe that […]