For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
The most common question I get asked is, “How do you not see race?” Mystified, irritated, doubtful, persons look at me and wonder how does it happen. Or they think, “What world are you living in? Not the real one. Don’t you see what is happening?” I am treated like a madwoman. They shake their […]
Read MoreToday is the birthday of writer, activist and artist, James Baldwin. Today, I salute his courageous questioning of the social construct of race, the distance between race and human identity. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the words and witness of Mr. James Baldwin.
Read MoreJames Baldwin looked down at the red clay hills of Georgia and thought “that this earth had acquired its color from the blood that dripped down from the trees.” That lynching is a part of America’s troubled history cannot be overstated and yet it is not often talked about. Still, Billie Holiday sang of its […]
Read More“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself […]
Read More“White people have not always been ‘white,’ nor will they always be ‘white.’ It is a political alliance. Things will change.” {Amoja Three Rivers} I begin with whiteness because all of the other social colors define themselves by it. In fact, the other social colors exist for it. Whiteness depends on blackness, for example, for […]
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The Raceless Gospel 