For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
In my distress, I called to the Lord, and He answered me: ‘Lord, deliver me from lying lips and a decietful tongue.’” ~Psalm 120.1 Some years ago, I realized that speaking of myself in terms of race was a deception. I was lying to myself. I was not really black… at least not yet. I had […]
Read MoreTo 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 […]
Read More“How are you doing, my sister?” “Can you spare some change, my brother?” I hear it often from older African American men who wish to pay me a compliment or are asking for assistance. I hear it as respectful, an expression of social grace as it assumes a relational closeness that could draw a smile […]
Read MoreConversations about race are almost always done in secret, open for public discussion only when it involves a celebrity or a politician. Old myths rear their heads, our unspoken rules are repeated to members in our cultural group, stories of offense involving race are exchanged and we say, “This is why things are the way […]
Read More“How long will I store up anxious concerns within me, agony in my mind everyday? Psalm 13.2 If we have no control over race, if its biological or innate, then why do we spend so much of our time worrying about it? If we cannot change the stereotypes that are associated with the social coloring of our […]
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