Category: Race and Place

Five facts about the life of race

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Race is a modern invention of the European Enlightenment: “European Enlightenment thinkers retained the Greek ideal of reason, as well as this reason’s categorical function of discriminating between the cultured (now called the ‘civilized) and the ‘barbarian’ (the ‘savage’ or the ‘primitive’). It can be argued, in fact, that the Enlightenment’s declaration of itself as […]

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The Apartheid Museum

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“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” ~ Nelson Mandela If you would like to learn more about apartheid in South Africa, please visit the Apartheid Museum, which opened in 2001.  In addition to exhibits, the museum offers […]

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I’m Dreaming of a White… President

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“He won’t be the brightest, perhaps, but he’ll be the whitest. And I’ll vote for that,” sings the Grammy award winning singer and songwriter. Randy Newman has written a song that addresses the issue of race in this presidential election and the debate over Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president.  The song and […]

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Keeping All Of Our Brothers and Sisters

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“Am I my brother’s keeper?” ~ Genesis 4.9 “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.” ~ John 13.35 According to a MSNBC report, a “Whites only Christian gathering riles some Alabama neighbors.”  It’s an annual pastors conference that ends today and according to the […]

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