Faith seeking understanding– without race
“If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.” | Ludwig Wittgenstein Most persons feel compelled to answer to race and to question those who don’t. “Who does race say that you are?” Skin deep, the epitome of superficial meaning, we speak as if its value is apparent, a […]
Read MoreRace is about beginnings. Do we enter the world as colored people or do we become colored people? Chicken or the egg, social colors or creatures, which came first? It is a necessary question if we are to rid ourselves of race. If we are to see that we can live without it, we must […]
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 […]
Read MoreWith an increase in the surveillance of bodies socially colored black, I feel it necessary to talk about the valuation of the human body and the Church’s role in such a conversation. With some persons feeling it necessary to call the police as if a customer service agency for humans they deem damaged due the social construct of […]
Read MoreFor the next few weeks, I will feature videos that discuss the plight of the Church in North America, which remains segregated– unlike the military, retail stores, hospitals and cemeteries, restaurants and movie theaters, bathrooms and water fountains, libraries, schools, buses and other modes of transportation. While there are enclaves, it is illegal to discriminate and prevent persons […]
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The Raceless Gospel 