Loosen Up

I feel the need to say again and again that you are not made up of a color, that you cannot be summed up by your skin.  There is more to you and this is a lesser part.  Of all that God is created on your body, still we focus on the layer that covers […]

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Barna Reports on Racial Tension in America

A report released on May 5, Barna focuses on racial tension in America after the widespread attention garnered by the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and many others. Using the mixed response of persons to the Black Lives Matter movement, respondents are asked about their experience with race and their beliefs about the social […]

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Black Lives Matter versus All Lives Matter

More than a chant or a hash tag, it cannot be argued that Black Lives Matter is a movement, putting pressure on social structures that continue to value some lives more than others.  Eerily similar to the declaration “I am a man” made during the Civil Rights Movement, I, along with so many others, cannot […]

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Aamer Rahman Explains Reverse Racism

This will literally take less than three minutes of your time.  Aamer Rahman, one half of the comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet, explains reverse racism with great comedic timing. The Huffington Post called it a card in 2015, addressing four myths around the word.  The article is much longer and may take more […]

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Crammed

“Unity has never meant uniformity.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait It is American to group, to lump together, to form insider and outsider groups. It is essential for the machinery of capitalism to function properly.  Our ongoing arguments keep its gears oiled. While fiercely declaring our independence and defending […]

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