For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I know that my work is hard, that my words are difficult, that a race-less gospel can be hard to believe and believe in. I believe it and initially, I was afraid to say it. It was not that I felt it was wrong, that I was not “fully persuaded,” that I thought that I […]
Read MoreUnlike the chicken or the egg analogy, human beings and the social construct of race are not inseparable. Humans did not come from race but race did come from humans, a product of Enlightenment thinking. Race was not “in the beginning” with God but is with us now because we created it. We came first […]
Read MoreThere is an image of whiteness here but you can’t see it because it just fades into the background. White, adj. 2. belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction). Synonyms: colorless, unpigmented, bleached, natural “Do white people have the advantage of being race- less?” Someone typed […]
Read More“We need the courage to create ourselves daily.” ~ Maya Angelou Race is finished. It is done with us. It has nothing new to add but has concluded that we are more of the same. We are all just colored people. Race stereotypes us, box us up, prepackaged us long before we were born. It […]
Read MoreRacial eliminativism. Try saying that three times fast. This tongue twister is not the work of our beloved Dr. Seuss but scholars like K. Anthony Appiah, Lawrence Blum, J. Angelo Corlett, Ashley Montagu and Naomi Zack. I hope to be added to this list and here’s why. Racial eliminativists believe in the elimination of race. […]
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The Raceless Gospel 