Category: Race

Just do right

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These three words are Maya Angelou’s and they have inspired this morning’s post.  I don’t know about you but I search for wisdom.  And as is evident in her three words, it does not take many.  I don’t need a long or grand speech, just a couple of thought-filled and authentic words can release me […]

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Don’t call me Fresh Off the Boat

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Originally posted on More Than Serving Tea:
If you haven’t already heard, a new family is hitting the airwaves tomorrow (Wednesday 8:30|7:30c on ABC), and I am excited, nervous, curious, and afraid. It’s not every decade you get to see an Asian American family featured in an episode of a television show, let alone an…

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We made the rules

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“History is made by those who break the rules.” ~ An author unknown If you want to get me fired up, just start talking about how helpless we are in terms of race. If you want to get me energized, just start telling me what I can’t do because of racism, prejudice and stereotypes.  Start […]

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The Reconciled Church

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“Healing the racial divide in the nation will take the Church’s leadership,” says Bishops Harry Jackson and T.D. Jakes who are the leaders of a new attempt to position the church as a source of healing and reconciliation in matters of race.  Their website features a letter to President Barack Obama, “Practical Steps Toward Racial […]

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We need to talk about racism

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At a Tedx in Johannesburg, Gillian Schutte says that we need to talk about racism and she begins with her son.  A powerful testimony and witness of confronting and challenging the construct of whiteness, the indoctrination of race and the development of empathy, I very much appreciate her work and would talk to her about […]

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