For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“We are trapped in history and history is trapped in us.” ~ James Baldwin I love history so much so that while in college, I seriously considered making it my major. But, my desire to study history was not rooted in a love for the past but in my ignorance of it– both social and cultural but more importantly, personal. […]
Read MoreThis is the way that we have always been. It is the likely rationale or unconscious thought for those who live a racialized life or justify the anger, unforgiveness and hatred that support it. Always is synonymous with “for all of time, until the end of time, constantly, and forever.” But for all of time, we have […]
Read MoreI am often asked to explain how it is at all possible to live a race-less life. “It’s who you are,” some say, pointing to their own social privileges to suggest that I too must accept the social powerlessness of blackness in order to truly understand my life as an American. “It is who we are,” others […]
Read More“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” ~ Romans 3.23 This week, I continue to ponder this notion of all. The assertion that we can know everything about someone based on their racial grouping (which should not be confused with culture as the two are not synonymous), that we can […]
Read MoreI had been looking for answers as to why God created me black after studying what Du Bois refers to in The Souls of Black Folk as “the problem of the color line”; the concept of “the Negro problem”; and socially defined black people as “the white man’s burden,” the title of the English poet […]
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The Raceless Gospel 