Faith seeking understanding– without race
What is it that we see in race that we cannot see apart from it? Why do we prefer to get closer to it than to ourselves? This literal carnal identity, we are known by our skin. It is the way of the world. It is the way things are people remind me. No other […]
Read More“After all these generations and centuries of practice, we still don’t know how to see and talk about ourselves or each other. We are at the same time obsessed with ‘race’ and wholly confounded by it.” |Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self- Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race Oppressed and oppressor, master and slave, America has […]
Read MoreRace is not a body language. It is not a form of nonverbal communication as one’s physical features do not actually communicate physical behaviors. Because there must be a bad connection as the calls are all the same. Black is bad, can’t be half bad but must be all bad, a bad apple that leaves […]
Read MoreStill signing up and showing up for the role of colored people, black, brown, red, yellow, white and otherwise? Well, here are a few words of wisdom from two of my favorite writers to get you to choose differently and to say something more about who you are as a human being. Because race is […]
Read MoreWhy do I proclaim a raceless gospel when there is so much faith in race? Why do I scribble over words in books that color- code our shared humanity and repeat the appropriate cultural designations aloud? We are not black but African Americans. We are […]
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The Raceless Gospel 