“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of the evil treasure produces evil; for it is […]
To be a socially colored “black” person is to be kept down, prevented from rising and especially not to the top. If you are up, then you are an “uppity Negro” and out of place, out of character. You think that you are “better than your own people” and need to be taken down a […]
“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 […]
Apart from Christ’s sacrificial death, the righteousness of Race has been revealed through the social coloring of our skin– attested by human reasoning through faith in pigmentation, to all those who follow the light skin, distinguished from them all. For all are not white but have fallen short of the glory of Race. Those deemed white are […]
The idea of a race-less life created an interruption in my regularly scheduled social programming. Before then, I had always tuned in. I knew all of the characters and their story lines. I read books about them, collected images and shared stories of my run-ins with prejudice and stereotypes. I suppose I was more of […]