Race Fact #27: A Nation Familiar With Racism

“It is racism with which we are, as a nation, familiar, even if we remain sadly naive as to the depths of its depravity.” ~ Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

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My Life’s Resolution

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” ~ Leo Tolstoy “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming […]

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Fifteen Reasons Why I Left Race

I have struggled with the concept of race since my early teens. Though race, racism, stereotypes and prejudices have been and continue to be used as a rationale for the ways of American society and its citizens, it was never justified for me. Race did not and remains unable to explain or excuse behavior that would […]

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Race Has No Body

In my distress, I called to the Lord, and He answered me: ‘Lord, deliver me from lying lips and a decietful tongue.’” ~Psalm 120.1 Some years ago, I realized that speaking of myself in terms of race was a deception. I was lying to myself. I was not really black… at least not yet. I had […]

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Race Cannot Help You

“I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” ~Psalm 121.1-2 In the times of the Old Testament, gods were often made and placed in high places like the mountains or the hills of a city. They were also elevated through the […]

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