How We Emerge

Racism, prejudice and stereotypes are a problem. Most, if not all persons, would agree that they produce more conflicts than resolutions, offer more questions than answers. We need only watch the evening news or visit a news website to hear about yet another incident of violence incited by race.  But, no matter how many times […]

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Because Race Said So

There is no interrupting race and there is nothing that we can do to change its decisions about us. What the social coloring of our skin says about us goes.  There is no other interpretation and subsequently, no other reality. To challenge or to question race would be disrespectful. It is race that has made us and […]

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Because We’ve Been Forgiven

“Then Peter came to Him and said, ‘Lord, how many times could my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’ ‘I tell you, not as many as seven,’ Jesus said to him, ‘but seventy times seven. For this reason, the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king […]

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Can Christ Not Forgive The Sins of Race?

She asked for my forgiveness. Though she had not been involved in the plot, had not planted the box of dynamite or placed it under the steps of the church, though she was a child perhaps old enough to remember but not to act or fully understand, though I wasn’t even born as it was September 15, 1963, didn’t live […]

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Train Up A Child…

“If you have the same skin, you can play together but if you don’t have the same skin, you can’t play together.” ~”Kids On Race: The Hidden Picture” with Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper’s report serves as a reminder of the power of parenting and the need to teach our children about cultural differences in a manner that […]

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