I am not blind and I am certainly not color- blind. That’s not what the race-less gospel means or aims to accomplish. I am not hoping that the world will turn a blind eye to the different physical appearances of human beings across cultures and the globe. Please don’t tell your eyes that they are […]
Race is about beginnings. Do we enter the world as colored people or do we become colored people? Chicken or the egg, social colors or creatures, which came first? It is a necessary question if we are to rid ourselves of race. If we are to see that we can live without it, we must […]
Why do I proclaim a raceless gospel when there is so much faith in race? Why do I scribble over words in books that color- code our shared humanity and repeat the appropriate cultural designations aloud? We are not black but African Americans. We are […]
Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has admitted to wearing a racist costume and has apologized. In his 1984 medical school yearbook, there appears someone dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and another in blackface. Tonight, persons are calling for his resignation. While I take issue with his decision to wear either “costume” […]
Recently, journalist Tom Brokaw was called out on comments he made on Meet the Press where he suggested that Hispanics were not doing enough to assimilate. He has since apologized but the conversations continue online, on buses and in taxis, at barbershops and salons, in breakrooms and over dinner as to what he meant and […]