For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are […]
Read MoreA picture of President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama photoshopped to include a banana was tweeted by Irina Rodnina. Despite the fact that humans come from humans, the piece of fruit has historically been used to suggest that persons from Africa or of African descent derived from apes.[1] Rodnina is an MP from Vladimir Putin’s […]
Read MoreIn a letter to the editor of The New York Times, John L. Hodge, a retired lawyer and former professor of philosophy, asks the hard questions of race and provides a remedy that doesn’t require an apology or reparations, protests or demonstrations, an appeal to the Supreme Court or a change in the laws of […]
Read More“I’d rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.” ~ Psalm 84.10, NRSV Pastor Makeda Pennycooke, an African American pastor at Freedom House Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently sent an email to church volunteers that has caused some persons to rethink their understanding of the […]
Read MoreDunkin’ Donuts is receiving scrutiny after an ad surfaced on a train in Thailand of a model in blackface, her lips painted bright pink, advertising their “charcoal donut.” This, of course, is argued by some as reminiscent of the blackface minstrelsy of the 19th and 20th centuries but, for others, it is nothing more than […]
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