I Believe I’ll Run On (Part Two)

“I believe I’ll run on/ see what the end ‘gone be/ I’ll believe I’ll run on/ see what the end gone be” “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the […]

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Defining Race-less

Race- less, Adj. 1.  Used to describe persons who choose not to identify with or by a socioculturally constructed race, here being black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige; used to describe a person not willing to be defined by the social coloring of skin, biased beliefs regarding physical attributes or stereotypes associated with a cultural […]

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Talking Race with a Toddler who wasn’t Talking about Race at All

Tamika Thompson’s recent New York Times article highlights the importance of discerning exactly what our children, big and small, are really talking about.  While playing with her dolls, her daughter asked her to hand her “the black one.”  Tamika writes that she and her husband had done all the right things to ensure that their […]

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There’s no such thing

There is no such thing as a good or true stereotype.   A stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”  It is “an image perpetuated without change” that may or may not be based in an actual experience.  It is a “solid […]

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Thankful for Race?

O, give thanks to race for it is good and its stereotypes endure forever.  God forbid. Exactly why are we so thankful for race, so proud to be black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige?  And why are we content with being racial beings/ colored people, passing down the names and stereotypes of our culture and […]

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