Tag: colored people

When you don’t know what to say

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Good Morning America’s (GMA) Amy Robach is not a having a good morning right now.  She said the wrong word during an on- air show.  To be sure, it was a racial slur: colored people. I know, I know.  It’s really close to the word now being used: people of color.  But, not really. People of […]

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Color is not a gift

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers…” ~ Ephesians 4.11, NRSV Unfortunately, most of us treat the social coloring of skin, the shape of our noses the texture of our hair as a gift from God.  However, we believe that some not all social […]

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“Hello. My name is…”

.Reading time 5 minutes.

My family and I recently visited a state that shall remain nameless and after being introduced to a European American woman in her early to mid- forties who would be serving us during our weekend stay, she felt compelled to share with me that there was only one “colored person” in her school “all the […]

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