Category: Teaching Racelessness

Ten Things I Hate About Race

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In 1999, I was a freshmen in college when a romantic teen comedy was released called Ten Things I Hate About You.  It is a modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s play  “Taming of the Shrew.”  Now, I have never seen this movie but the title of this post must have been inspired by it somehow.  I assure you […]

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Forgiving Words

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“And the very hairs on your head are all numbered.” ~Luke 12.7 “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”  Parents teach their children this simple rhyme that is in fact a complicated lie to inoculate them from the painful experience of being teased or bullied or to prepare them for […]

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Why a Race-less Life

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After a conversation with a friend this week about the blog, I agreed with her that it was necessary to expound upon why I seek to live life without race.  I briefly shared with her my childhood and formative experiences in a hyper- racialized home environment.  From conception, my life has been determined by race.  […]

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It’s a Stretch

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There are so many reasons to believe in race and it is certainly easier to just accept the reality that I have been given— to be as I’m told.  Black.  But, what if I don’t agree?  Is it then wrong to talk back to society, to argue with the seemingly parental figure that is my […]

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One Finish Line

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Race does not exist.  It is but a construct of our social imagination; a single mental image that is perceived as real and that we have agreed to bring into our reality.   It is but a dream filled with mythical characters like the mammy, brute, Jezebel, and Uncle Tom.  It is a place where people become colors– black, […]

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