“How to share the gospel with a racist.” That’s what someone typed into a search engine, which then directed them to this website yesterday. The request surprised me but I also think that it makes for a great title. It’s edgy and it fits within the purpose of my work, that is to remind persons […]
The question of race is one that I use to wrestle with. For a long time, it won because I thought that its answers to my identity were stronger and better trained. Looking back, I think that I let race win because I did not perceive it as an enemy but more like a coach, […]
When I speak of the social construct of race, its prejudicial view and stereotypical identifiers and our leaving it behind, persons get nervous. They seem to ask, “Where do we go from race?” Or, “If we get rid ourselves of race, there will be something else to replace it?” So, let’s just stick with this […]
Unlike the chicken or the egg analogy, human beings and the social construct of race are not inseparable. Humans did not come from race but race did come from humans, a product of Enlightenment thinking. Race was not “in the beginning” with God but is with us now because we created it. We came first […]
There is an image of whiteness here but you can’t see it because it just fades into the background. White, adj. 2. belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction). Synonyms: colorless, unpigmented, bleached, natural “Do white people have the advantage of being race- less?” Someone typed […]