All

Many shapes and colors, with and without sight, open and closed, rolling and blinking, itching and red, crying and dry but they are all eyes.  We are all seeing the same things. Many forms and sizes, with and without pimples, hair or mucus inside them still they are all noses.  We are all breathing the […]

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Beyond Prejudice

I often look for resources to share that might assist us in our journey toward understanding ourselves apart from the social construct of race.  Deconstructing this identity is more complicated than the “peeling back the layers.”  It is deeply imbedded in who we are and believe others to be. The paradigm of race must be […]

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Bigger Words

“…as it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations’)– in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.” ~ Romans 4.17, NRSV Paul is writing about Abraham, the father of our faith and likewise, […]

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The Whole Armor of Race

Living the racialized life calls for twenty- four hour surveilance as there is always something being said or not said, being done or not done on the basis of race.  All verbal and nonverbal communications, actions and reactions must be scrutinized for potential harm to us.  We must always be ready to defend and thus, […]

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This Is Not A Spectator Sport

I am often dumbfounded at the number of persons who live their lives as if mere spectators. They talk about their lives as if they are not active participants but onlookers, as if narrators instead of characters. They share their experiences with race, racism and prejudice as if to say, “Do you see what racism […]

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