“Santa Claus is a Black Man”: Race and the Imaginary

“Santa Claus is a Black man; Santa Claus is a Black man And he’s handsome like my daddy, too Santa Claus is a Black man; Santa Claus is a Black man And I found out; that’s why I’m telling you.” This is the chorus of a song that I grew up listening to during Christmastime […]

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Emptying Boxes, Unpacking Human Identity

My husband and I moved from Washington, D.C. to Mount Rainier, Maryland this past August.  I confess that we are both bibliophiles but I suppose there is no need for confession as I had nearly fifty boxes of proof.  Still, more remain stored and we would never think of giving them away.  We need them or […]

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Preoccupied With Race

“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” ~ Matthew 6.34 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his  span of life?  ~ Luke 12.25 “More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations. To be preoccupied means […]

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Our Only Difference

“So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.” ~Malachi 3.18 We differ in span and reach but this does not measure our humanity. We have hair and eyes and skin just the same but their colors do not […]

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Race Is No Mystery

The human being is no mystery.  There are witnesses to our beginning and our end, persons who have gone before us and who will follow, persons to bring us into the world and to carry us out of it.  Our ignorance of each other does not mean that we are not known or able to […]

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