For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
Four little girls Who went to Sunday School that day And never came back at home at all– But left instead Their blood upon the wall. ~Langston Hughes I recently purchased The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America by Edward J. Blum & Paul Harvey. The […]
Read More“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ~ Mother Theresa I am convinced that the reason why we continue to live as we have lived– cynical, despondent and dazed– is because there has been no change in the way that we love. Our love is not deep enough or […]
Read MoreHope Yen of the Associated Press reports that “Negro will no longer be used on U.S. Census surveys.” How does this change influence your understanding of identity in America?
Read MoreRace was not a social category in the ancient world of the Bible. “The ancient world did not make skin color the focus of irrational sentiments or the basis for uncritical evaluation. …(T)he ancient world did not fall into the error of biological racism; black skin color was not a sign of inferiority; Greeks and […]
Read MoreThe social colors of race, here being black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige people, are a modern invention. “The terms Indian and Negro were both borrowed from the Hispanic languages, the one originally deriving from (mistaken) geographical locality and the other from human complexion. … After about 1680 … a new tern of self- identification […]
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