For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“They don’t want us here.” “You know how they are.” “You know what they say about ________ people.” They– the ominous, seemingly ever- present gender neutral plural pronoun that follows us through life. We include these social gatekeepers, an internalized inner circle of critics and pseudo sages of America’s many cultures in our conversations. Their […]
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“Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. Then Peter remembered and said to him , ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed is withered.’ Jesus replied to them, ‘Have faith in God.’ I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be […]
Read MoreRecently, I led a workshop on the race-less life and after reviewing the oral, physical and later pseudo-scientific origins of race, I asked the participants, “How do you label race?” I’m sure that the question is an unfamiliar one as race does the labeling in our society. We are seemingly lined up at birth, waiting to […]
Read MoreIn physics, the black hole is “a region of spacetime for which nothing, not even light (due to its massive size), can escape.” Apart of the theory of general relativity, anything that falls into the black hole is unable to be observed by outsiders. The idea of this possibility was penned in a letter written by geologist John […]
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The Raceless Gospel 