Cheerio!
A Cheerios commercial depicting a multiethnic family has prompted racist responses on social media. USA Today reports that “Hate talk won’t derail mixed- race Cheerios ad.” Cheerio!
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Stephen R. Haynes: Memphis ‘kneel-ins’ tested churches
The 1960s campaign to integrate churches needs to be remembered and re-examined says the author of “The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation.” Stephen R. Haynes shares with readers another facet of the civil rights movement on Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership blog.
Read MoreOn this National Day of Prayer
On this National Day of Prayer, I am thinking about the hands that I may never hold, not because I am not reaching out but because the person that I am reaching for does not like its social coloring. We pray to the same God but we may never pray together. As siblings, we ask […]
Read MoreRace Fact #16
Q: Why is racism a religion? A: “As a religion, racism shares all the essential characteristics of every other religion (secular or supernatural). Thus, racism has its own: (5) Community of worshipers, which is the social group that shares the beliefs and practices of the racist religion; the racist community may be a church, a […]
Read MoreRace Fact #14
Q: Why is racism a religion? A: “As a religion, racism shares all the essential characteristics of every other religion (secular or supernatural). Thus, racism has its own: (3) Practices, which are the active observable sides of a religion (and may include acts of discrimination, violence, segregation, etc. and may involve rituals and ceremonies, such as […]
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The Raceless Gospel 