We are predominately spirit, more spirit than flesh, more breath than earth. We are majority spirit, more than a number, made of a substance that cannot be counted. We are predominately us; there really is no “them,” no human being outside of our shared humanity. We are all strangers, all immigrants, all travelers passing through this world. […]
Race is not all there is to us. We are not the social coloring of skin. We are not just epidermis. There is an inside of us that we barely address, that we rarely acknowledge that is impacted by this overwhelming focus on the external, the outside of us. Frankly, race is no part of […]
Caged. That’s what I feel like when I begin to talk about life lived according to race. My voice even starts to constrict and my palms start to sweat. Sure, I can move but only so far and I can see and be seen but my vantage point is very limited. My world is shaped […]
God did His best when He created each of us. Race cannot improve upon us. And there is nothing that race adds to us that takes away from what God has given us and who God has called us to be. When God said us, spoke us into being that settled us. No hesitation. No […]
… for they will see God.” Unlike most persons I talk to, I think about race in order to discern ways to never think about it again. I talk about race in order to eradicate it from conversations about human identity and the ways in which we relate to each other. I assert that we […]