Race Fact #28: Nations Not Races
The Bible lists the nations that descended from Noah– not races (Genesis 10). God divides humanity into nations; we have divided ourselves into races.
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Race Fact #27: A Nation Familiar With Racism
“It is racism with which we are, as a nation, familiar, even if we remain sadly naive as to the depths of its depravity.” ~ Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Read MoreRace Fact #25: Abraham Lincoln On Race
“I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1858
Read MoreRace Fact #24: Why Race Remains Prevalent
Race continues as a prevalent means by which we identify ourselves because we do not find it important enough or of a pressing necessity to meet who we really are. We have no interest in and no desire to change our status from stranger to self.
Read More“Hello. My name is…”
My family and I recently visited a state that shall remain nameless and after being introduced to a European American woman in her early to mid- forties who would be serving us during our weekend stay, she felt compelled to share with me that there was only one “colored person” in her school “all the […]
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