For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
No indictment again and more cases involving European American police officers and African American men and children. Persons are in city streets protesting again. Attorney General Eric Holder has revised the 2003 racial profiling guidelines and has expanded them to include gender, gender identity, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. But, do we need to […]
Read MoreThe Christian Century initiates a conversation for pastors of predominately “white” congregations to talk about racial violence in general and Ferguson specifically in an article titled “How pastors talk about Ferguson.” C. Browning Helsel offers “A Word to the Whites: Preaching about Racism in White Congregations,” challenging those who identify as socially colored white to consider […]
Read MoreBaptist News Global has asked me to write a monthly column for their “Perspectives” page and I have accepted. Of course. I am so grateful to the editor, Robert Dilday and the staff for the opportunity to share my perspective on the social construct of race and its intersections as it relates to our Christian […]
Read MoreIf you are a member of a historically oppressed group, it seems that there are some privileges that come with the category. While persons who are oppressed are certainly deserving of liberation, protection from the threat of future harm, reparations and restorative justice, it seems that members of this group and those who would like to […]
Read MoreI get the feeling that oppressed persons have been given the social identity of innocent, that we view oppressed persons as incapable of sinning due to their social condition, that we treat the oppressed as we do the dead and speak well of them out of respect though we know that this is not the […]
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The Raceless Gospel 