For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I am presently reading Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky. It, along with Samuel Wells’ Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, are required reading for Duke University’s Foundations of Christian Leadership program. I will return at the end of this month to the Avila […]
Read More“You don’t come into this world African or European or Asian, rather this world comes into you. As literally hundreds of scientists have argued, you are not born with race in the same way you are born with fingers, eyes and hair. Fingers, eyes and hair are natural creations, whereas race is a social fabrication. […]
Read MoreA life lived racially gives me more than I want, more than I can handle, manage or control. It is before and beside me, inside of me and outside of me. It’s stereotypically connected to the foods that I eat, the clothing I wear and the car that I drive. It has rendered a judgment about everything […]
Read MoreRace often goes before us, introducing one to others before she or he has even entered the room. As soon as the social coloring of a person’s skin is determined, assumptions are made and the experience is rated and ruined before it has even begun. Race is often the deciding factor for the necessity of a […]
Read More“Do not judge so that you won’t be judged. For with the judgment you use, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but do not notice the log (beam, KJV) in your own eye? Or […]
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