For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I’m not searching for a middle ground, an either/or, both/and solution to race. I don’t believe in compromise when it comes to the matter for the loss is too great if race remains in our lives. No one will win; no one ever has. I find nothing of use in the designations of race or its […]
Read MoreApparently, at the the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the members (at least five or six of them) need to know what race you are. In the church’s 150 year history, there has never been an African American couple to wed there and that won’t change– at least […]
Read MoreA recent article about President Obama’s relation to America’s first African slave through his mother’s lineage reminds us that people are not as they appear and that we cannot judge persons by the social coloring of skin. We are not as disconnected or as different as race would have us to believe.
Read More“For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and […]
Read MoreIn C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, I find a truth within the seventh letter from Screwtape, a senior tempter/ devil to his nephew, Wormwood. Taking heed to the warning and reminder that Lewis places in the preface: “Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar,” if I err it is for the sake of undermining the […]
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