Faith seeking understanding– without race
On this day in 1955, a fourteen year old African American boy named Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois was killed in Money, Mississippi. I know his story by heart; it was the first one I learned on domestic terrorism and mob lynching when I began my personal study of African American history. He went […]
Read MoreA recent Washington Post article titled “Why white people need to see the searing new African American Museum” featured the image of Mamie Till leaning over her fourteen year old son, Emmett Till’s casket. After he was kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered during a visit with relatives who lived in the South, Till decided to have an […]
Read MoreA few days ago, I wrote about the death of Mr. Alton Sterling in a police- involved shooting in Baton Rouge. “I don’t want to say another name” was written from a place of distress and emotional exhaustion. I just could not take another death, another loss and frankly, another win for the social construct […]
Read MoreTrayvon Martin. I can’t seem to stop thinking about him and neither can millions of people across the United States and around the world. The President of the United States of America said, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin,” the members of the Miami Heat, Marian Wright Edelman of the […]
Read More“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” ~Friedrich Neitzsche Race is a monster. It’s not like the ones that hide under our beds or in our closets. Its features are not ghastly though it has been known to make its victims appear such. Race is […]
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The Raceless Gospel 