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“Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him. He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore– even with chains– […]
Read More“The traditional racial ideology has thus made of the black man a devil, a bogey man, the epitome of evil and badness. He is the foil that sets off the white social values lending to them an increased splendor. The use to which the black race is put is cryptically suggested by the story of […]
Read More“A ruler asked Him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ‘Why do you call me good?’ Jesus asked him. ‘No one is good but One–God. You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honor your father and mother.’ ‘I have […]
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The Raceless Gospel 