Race is not a body language. It is not a form of nonverbal communication as one’s physical features do not actually communicate physical behaviors. Because there must be a bad connection as the calls are all the same. Black is bad, can’t be half bad but must be all bad, a bad apple that leaves […]
I recently completed my final report for the Louisville Institute. These generous partners in ministry awarded me a grant to study the sociopolitical construct of race, Clarence Jordan’s Koinonia Farm and why persons fear Christian community. I visited Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. It was Clarence’s “demonstration plot.” He would create his own world, challenging […]
A picture has surfaced of Justin Trudeau, now the prime minister of Canada, wearing “brown face.” To offer a comprehensive description, he also has a brown neck and hands at an “Arabian Nights” themed event back in 2001. He is a 29 year old teacher– not a student– at West Point Grey Academy. It’s a […]
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 […]
On 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 […]