What it takes to be post- racial

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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Think again and again

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.  To make a deep physical path, we walk again an again.  To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]

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Oppressed People Privileges

If you are a member of a historically oppressed group, it seems that there are some privileges that come with the category.  While persons who are oppressed are certainly deserving of liberation, protection from the threat of future harm, reparations and restorative justice, it seems that members of this group and those who would like to […]

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Birthing a Post- Racial Generation

Unlearning race and undoing racism is hard and time- consuming work.  It is a challenging work because it requires confrontation.  But, wait!  Before you start to clear your throat to recite what you would tell someone else about how “they” have treated you, let me interject.  It requires self- confrontation.  Race is always personal first. […]

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Why Race Remains Relevant

I’ve  done a lot of reading on race and its progeny, on the effects of our hatreds, on the traditions of prejudice.  As a child, it began as an interest, a hobby.  I was naturally drawn to things that were race- related.  Not dolls, miniature kitchen sets or even sports but books, movies, pictures that […]

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