Race does not exist. It is but a construct of our social imagination; a single mental image that is perceived as real and that we have agreed to bring into our reality. It is but a dream filled with mythical characters like the mammy, brute, Jezebel, and Uncle Tom. It is a place where people become colors– black, […]
Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a Trappist monk and the author of more than seventy books wrote: “The life of the exterior man is a life of automatism, of unconsciously dictated thought and action, of mechanical conformity to the standards and prejudices of those around us– or, for that matter, of mechanical and compulsive revolt against them. For […]