Dear Racial Me

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 […]

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No Longer A Struggle: Declaring A Post- Racial Identity

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.  If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.  But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Race is a battle behind me not ahead of me. It […]

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Race Is Not Enough

I am more than what the eyes can see or what they tell you I am or will be.  I am not just flesh and bone but soul and spirit, not tied to earth but bound for heaven.  I don’t just walk. More than this flesh and its members.  I have more than feet, wings […]

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Ten Power Thoughts for the Race-less Life

If 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 […]

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How Race Slowly Kills Us

Are you living or dying?  Well, if you believe in the social construct of race, then your life is a slow yet acceptable death.  At birth, we are told that we are socially colored black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige, that this is the way things are so we might as well get used to […]

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