Faith seeking understanding– without race
Juneteenth. It’s now a federal holiday and goes by many names: Juneteenth, Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day, Liberation Day, Freedom Day. Its government name is Juneteenth National Independence Day though some Republican lawmakers disagreed with the name, believing it created more division. Still, most of the fourteen Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted […]
Read MoreYou’ve got time for this class and it is brought to you by Jenée Desmond Harris. It is a lesson that must be learned and that bears repeating. Harris starts from the beginning of race and no, she does not begin in the book of Genesis. Lie #1 struck down. Race is not that old. […]
Read MoreI am continuing to explore the varied definitions and understandings of race in hopes of getting to the root of our tensions concerning it. I want to disprove them all. Ultimately, it is my desire to rid the social construct of its illusions and mystery by pinning it down with concrete descriptors. It is important […]
Read MoreToday, persons will remember the historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that occurred fifty years ago on Sunday, March 7, 1965. Already a movie, Selma will be a buzzword and a hash tag. It will be a trending topic today and perhaps for a couple more after that. We will wear t- shirts and […]
Read MoreThe belief in the social construct of race is not up for debate. Clearly, we have believed in it for hundreds of years, sacrificed the identity of our children to it. Race is a god that takes our will, our ability to self- determine. We are who race says that we are and we will […]
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The Raceless Gospel 