The Bible teaches us in the Old Testament book of Proverbs to “train children in the right way and when old, they will not stray” (22.6). So what am I to make of this story? Fifth grade students were separated into two groups, “masters” and “slaves,” in an Ohio classroom in an attempt to reenact the […]
“‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come […]
Being or rather becoming a white person is not natural or self- evident. “The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s people is a very modern thing.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Race must be defined again and again. It is in so doing that race is not allowed to redefine us. We must continue to remind ourselves of what race is. This will also inform us as to what race is not. If we do not maintain this practice, we will be subjected to its power […]
Whiteness is personal “property” not a physical reality. “As late as the beginning of the seventeenth century, male northern European elites did not see themselves as physically white, and were further from imagining that the word ‘white’ had uses as a noun. …The notion that one could own a skin color– what the legal scholar […]