For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“It is he who made us and not we ourselves.” ~Psalm 100.3 There are no self- made persons. We, as human beings, do not have that ability neither will we ever develop it. This capacity to be self- existent, to have one’s origin be one’s own hands can only be attributed to God. While this […]
Read MoreA recent article about President Obama’s relation to America’s first African slave through his mother’s lineage reminds us that people are not as they appear and that we cannot judge persons by the social coloring of skin. We are not as disconnected or as different as race would have us to believe.
Read MoreI am reminded each time I devote time to the reading of sacred Scripture how much of it remains unknown to me. Who can comprehend it all? What mind can grasp or contain it all? For something new is revealed to me each time that I open to a book or a letter. A new […]
Read MoreMy mother would often say to us, “Sit your black (expletive) down.” After arguments with my father, she would conclude that, “Niggas ain’t (expletive).” Many African Americans or those who would claim to take pride in blackness use the word black and likewise, nigga derogatorily. In the case of children, it is used to shame and […]
Read MoreShe asked for my forgiveness. Though she had not been involved in the plot, had not planted the box of dynamite or placed it under the steps of the church, though she was a child perhaps old enough to remember but not to act or fully understand, though I wasn’t even born as it was September 15, 1963, didn’t live […]
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The Raceless Gospel 