Tag: teaching racelessness

Black Disadvantage: Unpacking the Obvious Baggage of Blackness

.Reading time 13 minutes.

Privilege  (syn.): “honor, freedom, favor, pleasure, right, benefit, advantage, opportunity, license, joy, treat” Disadvantage (syn.): hindrance, inconvenience, drawback, difficulty, demerit, weakness, shortcoming, trouble, burden, hardship, nuisance, minus, handicap” Though shared at family gatherings along with secrets for surviving it, detailed in personal narratives and recorded in historical renderings of the hardships of believing in the […]

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Race Fact #30: A Special Race

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“The Bible does not begin with a special race of people.  When the first human is introduced into the story, he is simply called adam, which means humankind.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, 47

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Race Fact #28: Nations Not Races

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The Bible lists the nations that descended from Noah– not races (Genesis 10).  God divides humanity into nations; we have divided ourselves into races.

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Afraid of who we will become

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“For in him, we live, move and have our being.” ~ The Acts of the Apostles 17.28 Why is race so successful?  Why is it so convincing, so engrained, so entrenched in who we are?  Why is it so difficult to dig it up and to root it out of us?  Why do we have such a […]

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How do we know?

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“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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