For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
“I’m a problem. You’re a problem. We’re all a problem.” That about sums up any conversation on race. We have told “them” and “you people” how we feel for more than four hundred years and there have been responses. We have enslaved, traded, murdered, marched, sat in, sung about it, been falsely accused, jailed and […]
Read MoreWe talk a lot about what race has done to and for us, what race is doing to and for us, how we cannot live without race, how there is no existence a part from race. What we do not talk about is what we can do to race, how we can change and certainly […]
Read MoreUnlearning race and undoing racism is hard and time- consuming work. It is a challenging work because it requires confrontation. But, wait! Before you start to clear your throat to recite what you would tell someone else about how “they” have treated you, let me interject. It requires self- confrontation. Race is always personal first. […]
Read MoreI don’t like race. I think that this is obvious by now. But, what I cannot understand is why so many people do, why they choose to accept it despite all of its bad words and behavior, why we give it so much power and allow it to tell us who we and others are […]
Read MoreRace frustrates me for many reasons but one that I can’t seem to make sense of is the repetition. Race has not said anything new about any human being to date. And I’m tired of hearing the same old story of us versus them, the same old fears: they are going to get you or […]
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The Raceless Gospel 