For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I’ve had to say this in church, at a so- called multicultural, we are the example of inclusion and God’s kingdom come to earth one. “Don’t touch my hair.” After compliments, hands uninvited reached forward to finger my tresses. “It’s so soft,” she said. Her response revealing much and undoing more of a potential relationship […]
Read MoreOn this day in 1955, a fourteen year old African American boy named Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois was killed in Money, Mississippi. I know his story by heart; it was the first one I learned on domestic terrorism and mob lynching when I began my personal study of African American history. He went […]
Read MoreKatharine Gerbner writes in Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World that before there was the ideology of white supremacy, there existed what she calls “Protestant Supremacy.” Gerbner writes about Anglicanism in Barbados what was also true in America, “The Anglican Church in Barbados was exclusive, the domain of slave owners and […]
Read More“About the latter end of August, a Dutch man of Warr of the burden of a 160 tunes arrived at Point-Comfort, the Comandors name Capt Jope, his Pilott for the West Indies one Mr Marmaduke an Englishman. … He brought not any thing but 20 and odd Negroes, w[hich] the Governo[r] and Cape Merchant […]
Read MoreI went to bed thinking about the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. There was talk of a racist manifesto and the murderer writing about the “invasion of Hispanics.” El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen told reporters, “(It has) a nexus to potential hate crime.” #WhiteSupremacistTerrorism was trending on Twitter. This morning, #TrumpsTerrorists has replaced […]
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The Raceless Gospel 