This Is Not A Spectator Sport

I am often dumbfounded at the number of persons who live their lives as if mere spectators. They talk about their lives as if they are not active participants but onlookers, as if narrators instead of characters. They share their experiences with race, racism and prejudice as if to say, “Do you see what racism […]

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A Cure For Race

Conscious (kon’shas), adj. 1. Aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings 2.  Fully aware of or sensitive to something: conscious of one’s own faults. 3. Having the mental faculties fully active: He was fully conscious during the operation.  4. Known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt. 5. Aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar. […]

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Undoing Race: Putting No Confidence in the Flesh

“To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is protection for you. Watch out for dogs, watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus and do not […]

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When A Name Is Forbidden

“When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and knew that they had been with Jesus. And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in response. After they had ordered them to […]

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We Are Better Than Race

“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 […]

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