For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
You are not a box to be filled or checked off. You are not even a box to be unpacked. We are not social storage spaces, comprised of historical memories and future plans. Our humanity cannot be contained by cardboard, human will or public opinion because we cannot be folded neatly, labeled and put away. […]
Read MoreIt was a routine day at the park. We left the house around our usual time. Yesterday, we took the same route, looked at the same houses and pointed at the same cars and ‘tucks” (i.e. trucks). My son and I have done it almost every day since spring began. It was unusual that there […]
Read More“Our problems lie in how we see ourselves. We’ve bought into so much without thinking.” ~ Ali Karjoo- Ravary, a friend I made at the Chautauqua Institute More is better and we can certainly use more power when it comes to overcoming race. So much of what we hear and see and say suggests that we […]
Read MoreIf you want to change how you see yourself, you have to change how you say yourself. I am… It is easy to say who you are (or at least who you think or hope yourself to be); but, it takes courage to say who you are not. It takes power. It is my life’s […]
Read More“I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.” ~ Galatians 2.20, NRSV Race attempts to group millions of individuals according to their culture and based on the external markers of their flesh: the social coloring of skin, the shape of one’s […]
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The Raceless Gospel 