Tag: post- racial society

Building the New

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates Well- said, Socrates.  I had been searching for the words to explain my emphasis on ridding myself of race while not exerting any new energy on old fights.  I have been asked […]

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What it takes to be post- racial

.Reading time 6 minutes.

There is so much talk about our inability to be post- racial.  Just the mention of the world will cause persons to recount the various deeds of racism and to conclude that we are tragically bound to our flesh and its attributes, that we are the social coloring of skin.  These persons speak of race’s […]

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Return to Sender

.Reading time 2 minutes.

The words of race, those words don’t belong to me.  They were not picked out specifically for me and I certainly did not ask for them by name.  I did not ask to be called by or addressed as black.  I would never introduce myself as such as this is not how I want to […]

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