For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
There is a call and response song that comes to mind today. One person asks, “Have you tried Jesus?” and the congregation responds, “He’s alright!” I have heard many persons offer this song before sharing a personal testimony or a Sunday morning message. She or he usually encourages the members to “try him for yourself,” explaining that they have “tried him […]
Read MoreI grew up in the South. I was born in Pensacola, Florida but spent most of my teenage years in Foley, Alabama with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We didn’t have a street or a road; instead, we lived on trail. It was named Thomas Trail because our family owned the land at the end of […]
Read More“Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ~ Exodus 20.17, HCSB “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, […]
Read MoreThere is no interrupting race and there is nothing that we can do to change its decisions about us. What the social coloring of our skin says about us goes. There is no other interpretation and subsequently, no other reality. To challenge or to question race would be disrespectful. It is race that has made us and […]
Read MoreQuestions. It seems that I have an endless supply of them, especially when it comes to race. I guess that I collect them. In fact, I am always looking for the right word and more specifically, the right question to unravel the social construct of race. I sit and think not about answers to race […]
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The Raceless Gospel 