For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
When I speak of the social construct of race, its prejudicial view and stereotypical identifiers and our leaving it behind, persons get nervous. They seem to ask, “Where do we go from race?” Or, “If we get rid ourselves of race, there will be something else to replace it?” So, let’s just stick with this […]
Read MoreThe conversation I entered into with the attendees of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s ChurchWorks this week picks back up and concludes here: I suppose that it is a matter of pride and it’s a mind game. James uses the descriptor “double- minded” when speaking of the doubter who prays[i] but this two-ness is found both in […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
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The Raceless Gospel 