For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
There are so many reasons to believe in race and it is certainly easier to just accept the reality that I have been given— to be as I’m told. Black. But, what if I don’t agree? Is it then wrong to talk back to society, to argue with the seemingly parental figure that is my […]
Read MoreI’ve been attracted to the story of race and its characters since I was about twelve years old. My interest is not reactionary, a response to a slur or a derogatory comment meant to degrade or to cause me to question my presence in the world. Instead, it began in a classroom with my introduction to the slave narratives […]
Read MoreRace does not exist. It is but a construct of our social imagination; a single mental image that is perceived as real and that we have agreed to bring into our reality. It is but a dream filled with mythical characters like the mammy, brute, Jezebel, and Uncle Tom. It is a place where people become colors– black, […]
Read MoreThomas Merton (1915-1968), a Trappist monk and the author of more than seventy books wrote: “The life of the exterior man is a life of automatism, of unconsciously dictated thought and action, of mechanical conformity to the standards and prejudices of those around us– or, for that matter, of mechanical and compulsive revolt against them. For […]
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The Raceless Gospel 