Before we say, ‘I forgive you’

December 5, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

I am in a place that I had not anticipated and certainly could not have prepared for. It is the same feeling that I had after the shooting of nine bowed heads at Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2015. Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter, had hoped to start a race […]

Why do we keep ending up here?

December 2, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked the question, “Where do we go from here?” His book Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community was published in 1967 and offers an essential question for meditation and movement. It is a inquiry that requires us to look at our feet and to assess our surroundings. […]

Race As Social Formation

November 30, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

Like you, I inherited the identity that comes with the social construct of race and also the burden of its life and history. Initially, I accepted it. I didn’t know of any other option or way of being so I learned about being black. I read books and watched documentaries on Black history. I took […]

Where will Chicago go from here?

November 25, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

The dash cam video of the October 20, 2014 shooting of 17 year old Mr. Laquan McDonald was released last night. While there is no record of the sound of their interactions, the results are the same. This time, an African American male is shot 16 times. Sixteen times… He had a knife in his hand […]

The Survey Says: Anxious Americans

November 18, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The American Values Survey was released yesterday. Conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, the yearly survey reports that Americans are anxious about a lot of things. The Religion News Service highlighted the findings and they are scary. Apparently, we are worried about money, race, religion, specifically Islam and immigration especially in terms of the […]

The Raceless Gospel

Category: Race