For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
How did you hear about race? Where were you?Who told you and why? Do you remember when you were told that you were a colored person, a black/white/red/yellow/brown/beige person? What did it feel like? Were you told that you had power or that you were a problem? Was it presented as the unavoidable way of […]
Read MoreThe painful familiar. It is the concept that I discuss in the introduction of my book Conscious, a description of the racialized life and specifically, for me socially defined blackness. Accepting a black identity creates more questions than answers and brings more uncertainty than assurance. There is no confidence in being black as the identity is not constant but […]
Read More“How are you doing, my sister?” “Can you spare some change, my brother?” I hear it often from older African American men who wish to pay me a compliment or are asking for assistance. I hear it as respectful, an expression of social grace as it assumes a relational closeness that could draw a smile […]
Read MoreRecently, I led a workshop on the race-less life and after reviewing the oral, physical and later pseudo-scientific origins of race, I asked the participants, “How do you label race?” I’m sure that the question is an unfamiliar one as race does the labeling in our society. We are seemingly lined up at birth, waiting to […]
Read MoreApart from Christ’s sacrificial death, the righteousness of Race has been revealed through the social coloring of our skin– attested by human reasoning through faith in pigmentation, to all those who follow the light skin, distinguished from them all. For all are not white but have fallen short of the glory of Race. Those deemed white are […]
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The Raceless Gospel 