For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
I know that the actions committed in the name of race are real, that is makes a believer and faithful follower out of us, that we pledge allegiance to our skin and create borders around our bodies. No race- mixing. But, race does not have a real name for me. Socially constructed, I don’t want this American […]
Read More“White people have not always been ‘white,’ nor will they always be ‘white.’ It is a political alliance. Things will change.” {Amoja Three Rivers} I begin with whiteness because all of the other social colors define themselves by it. In fact, the other social colors exist for it. Whiteness depends on blackness, for example, for […]
Read More“Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience.” ~ James Baldwin, “Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes,” 1959 In recent days, I have been reading the writings of noted author […]
Read More“I am beige, brown, black, red, yellow, white.” What do we mean when we define ourselves by the social coloring of skin? Because calling yourself a color will not answer who you are. And the social construct of race does not tell us who or why we are but what we are– colored people. More it […]
Read More“Mirror, mirror on the wall… Whiteness is the fairest of them all.” What do we need or expect to see of ourselves that calls for the social construct of race? What of our humanity is made visible, evident, real when we become colored people? What can we not see without the lens of race? What […]
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The Raceless Gospel 