Race is about beginnings. Do we enter the world as colored people or do we become colored people? Chicken or the egg, social colors or creatures, which came first? It is a necessary question if we are to rid ourselves of race. If we are to see that we can live without it, we must […]
Why do I proclaim a raceless gospel when there is so much faith in race? Why do I scribble over words in books that color- code our shared humanity and repeat the appropriate cultural designations aloud? We are not black but African Americans. We are […]
His book arrived in the mail yesterday. I must confess that it is one of forty books that I have ordered in recent weeks. New home, new bookshelves, I am creating a library to support my future work on the raceless gospel. I want to be surrounded by these conversation partners. I have also decided […]
We’ve got to come back to ourselves. We’ve got to take more than a few steps back and we will have to step on more than a few toes in the process. But, let’s begin to walk it back. Let’s go back to the beginning. Return to the first Word that is certain to be […]
I am not searching for myself. I certainly will not find her in a crayon box. I did not wait my entire life to discover that I am a color. The creation narrative recorded in Genesis is much more meaningful, spiritual and tells me that God breathed into the first human being and he became […]