Faith seeking understanding– without race
This recent report reads like a prayer list for me. The Washington Post has described 2015 as the year of ‘enormous rage’ and there seems to be hatred to go around. The rhetoric of this political cycle’s presidential candidates has only added to the tension and division. So, we hate for racial, religious, economic and […]
Read MoreMy family and I recently visited a state that shall remain nameless and after being introduced to a European American woman in her early to mid- forties who would be serving us during our weekend stay, she felt compelled to share with me that there was only one “colored person” in her school “all the […]
Read More“To perpetuate privilege and oppression, we don’t have to do anything consciously to support it. Just our silence is crucial for ensuring its future, for the simple fact is that no system of privilege can continue to exist without most people choosing to remain silent about it…As such, we can only choose how to be […]
Read MoreMy mother would often say to us, “Sit your black (expletive) down.” After arguments with my father, she would conclude that, “Niggas ain’t (expletive).” Many African Americans or those who would claim to take pride in blackness use the word black and likewise, nigga derogatorily. In the case of children, it is used to shame and […]
Read MoreOreos, bananas, apples, coffee… It sounds like the beginning of a grocery list but it is actually the way in which many of us speak of ourselves and others. Not only do we categorize ourselves according to the social coloring of skin but apparently, human beings come in food groups. Our attention to color, that is the social coloring […]
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The Raceless Gospel 