Category: Race and Language

You’re not race-less yet?

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Still signing up and showing up for the role of colored people, black, brown, red, yellow, white and otherwise?  Well, here are a few words of wisdom from two of my favorite writers to get you to choose differently and to say something more about who you are as a human being.  Because race is […]

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Acceptance

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Accept one another, then, just as Christ has accepted you.” | Romans 15.7, NIV Spawned by reports of the current American president’s remarks on immigration, which included speaking of Haiti and the entire continent of Africa (i.e. some 54 countries and two de facto territories) in terms unbecoming of a human being– much less a president, […]

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When you don’t know what to say

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Good Morning America’s (GMA) Amy Robach is not a having a good morning right now.  She said the wrong word during an on- air show.  To be sure, it was a racial slur: colored people. I know, I know.  It’s really close to the word now being used: people of color.  But, not really. People of […]

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