How do we know?

“Oh, I know him!”  We believe that we know a person because we can remember his name or because he knows ours.  But, how much time have we spent with him?  How many experiences are shared before we make this judgment?  What do we mean when we say that we know someone and how does […]

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Race Made Me Do It: How Race Makes Us Unconscious

We believe that we are born into race and behave as if we are preprogrammed by it, predisposed to being racially motivated. We wouldn’t hate or stereotype or segregate or kill if the person had not been black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige. If they had only been different, if they had only been the […]

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Race Is No Mystery

The human being is no mystery.  There are witnesses to our beginning and our end, persons who have gone before us and who will follow, persons to bring us into the world and to carry us out of it.  Our ignorance of each other does not mean that we are not known or able to […]

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Our Meaning Is Abundant

I am often struck by the limited amount of words that I am able to choose from when placed within a story that involves race.  There are certain characters that I cannot be because of race, settings and time periods that I am excluded from, descriptions that I am not privy to because socially defined […]

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I Can Refuse

I don’t have to accept your version of me, Your interpretation of my reality I don’t need your eyes to see I can refuse   Don’t have to consent to your treatment of me, Your understanding of how I am That is the way things used to be I’m not related to Uncle Tom or […]

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