For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I know that many persons don’t understand my displeasure with race and I can’t point to the specific time when my intense dissatisfaction began. In fact, I don’t know why I just can’t let go of the conviction that race must be eradicated, that I don’t see it as others have though I have had many of the same […]
Read MoreI hate lies. There is no progress in them. They keep us in the same place. Lies are cyclical and telling them does nothing to advance our position, increase our understanding or elevate our level of awareness, whether personal, physical, social, spiritual or otherwise. In fact, maintaining a lie ensures that change in any form […]
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 MoreI’ve been attracted to the story of race and its characters since I was about twelve years old. My interest is not reactionary, a response to a slur or a derogatory comment meant to degrade or to cause me to question my presence in the world. Instead, it began in a classroom with my introduction to the slave narratives […]
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The Raceless Gospel 