For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
There is a childhood chant, a buffer against bullies that I was taught as a child: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” The words came to mind yesterday but they had changed a little: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but race will never hurt me.” To […]
Read MoreSome one asked the question, “How do you eat an elephant?” Some one else answered, “One bite at a time.” I don’t know who eats elephant or thinks that they can eat it all. I never have and don’t think that I would have the taste for one. Who wrote this menu anyway? Still, for […]
Read MoreThere is so much talk about our inability to be post- racial. Just the mention of the world will cause persons to recount the various deeds of racism and to conclude that we are tragically bound to our flesh and its attributes, that we are the social coloring of skin. These persons speak of race’s […]
Read More“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again an again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]
Read MoreI am devastated by the news of the execution of two New York City police officers, Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, at the hands of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who later was found dead of an apparent suicide. What are we doing? How did we get here? Why is this even a potential response to our concerns about police […]
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The Raceless Gospel 