Category: Teaching Racelessness

Black Disadvantage: Unpacking the Obvious Baggage of Blackness

.Reading time 13 minutes.

Privilege  (syn.): “honor, freedom, favor, pleasure, right, benefit, advantage, opportunity, license, joy, treat” Disadvantage (syn.): hindrance, inconvenience, drawback, difficulty, demerit, weakness, shortcoming, trouble, burden, hardship, nuisance, minus, handicap” Though shared at family gatherings along with secrets for surviving it, detailed in personal narratives and recorded in historical renderings of the hardships of believing in the […]

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Race Fact #30: A Special Race

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“The Bible does not begin with a special race of people.  When the first human is introduced into the story, he is simply called adam, which means humankind.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, 47

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Race Fact #29: ‘Cultural Pre- Understanding’

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“One of the more difficult hurdles for us to overcome in developing and applying biblical theology from the Scriptures is the ever- constant intrusion of ‘cultural pre- understanding’ into our interpretive and applicational process.  ‘Cultural pre- understanding’ is the tendency for us to interpret the biblical material through the lenses of our own personal cultural […]

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Passing Down a Race-less Faith

.Reading time 6 minutes.

I am a new mother of an eight month old charming boy named John and as protective as they come.  No one is exempt from my scrutiny.  I even subjected my husband to a job interview of sorts before leaving them home alone for the first time.  “How many diapers have you changed?  How many […]

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Race Fact #24: Why Race Remains Prevalent

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Race continues as a prevalent means by which we identify ourselves because we do not find it important enough or of a pressing necessity to meet who we really are.  We have no interest in and no desire to change our status from stranger to self.

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