Tag: conversations on race

Just do right

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These three words are Maya Angelou’s and they have inspired this morning’s post.  I don’t know about you but I search for wisdom.  And as is evident in her three words, it does not take many.  I don’t need a long or grand speech, just a couple of thought-filled and authentic words can release me […]

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The Race Problem: When You’re Tired of Eating Elephant

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Some one asked the question, “How do you eat an elephant?” Some one else answered, “One bite at a time.” I don’t know who eats elephant or thinks that they can eat it all. I never have and don’t think that I would have the taste for one. Who wrote this menu anyway? Still, for […]

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What more can we say about race?

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“I’m a problem.  You’re a problem.  We’re all a problem.”  That about sums up any conversation on race. We have told “them” and “you people” how we feel for more than four hundred years and there have been responses.  We have enslaved, traded, murdered, marched, sat in, sung about it, been falsely accused, jailed and […]

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