Tim Wise on White Privilege
Noted author and prolific speaker, Tim Wise speaks about the origin of whiteness and white privilege.
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Robert Jensen’s “The Color of the Race Problem Is White”
Robert Jensen, an author and professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, seeks to discuss and reframe the “race problem” in this discussion.
Read MoreThe road taken versus the road found
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life and there are few who find it.” ~ Matthew 7.13-14, NRSV Apart of the insightful […]
Read MoreRace Fact #4
Race as a category for identity or a means by which to identify one’s self is a modern concept. “The very category of ‘race’– denoting primarily skin color– was first employed as a means of classifying human bodies by Francois Bernier, a French physician, in 1684. The first authoritative racial division of humankind is found in the […]
Read MoreGenetics and the Concept of Race
Evolutionary geneticist, Dr. Richard Lewontin, speaks at the Hitchcock Lectures at UC Berkely on race and genetics, the effects of migration, invasion, conquest and subsequent rape. He asserts that race is a “social reality” but not a biological reality, that there is no single gene that differentiates one so- called race from another. Lewontin says, “We don’t […]
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The Raceless Gospel 