How I wish that no one would suffer and that we would work towards healing what sharply divides us. I think we need to talk about it. “War is what happens when language fails,” Margaret Atwood told us. But there are those who vehemently disagree. They will shout me...
Racialization is assimilation, which is not to be confused with self- actualization. Being beige, that is mixed race, black, brown, red, yellow or white is not something to aspire to. It’s not something that we are hardwired to do. We are not born with it. We are told...
Race does not identify us, but categorizes us for oppression.
Racialization is assimilation, which is not to be confused with self- actualization. Being beige, that is mixed race, black, brown, red, yellow or white is not something to aspire to. It’s not something that we are hardwired to do. We are not born with it. We are told...
The raceless gospel proclaims an anti-oppressive ecclesiology and embodies a spirituality of somebodiness that calls out the heresy of white supremacy while calling all God's children into beloved community.
We are never more or less human. Instead, we are subjected to social conditions created to restrict the view of fullness for many so that a few can see themselves as larger than life.
Race will always support "white" supremacy. That's why it was created. It serves no other purpose and cannot be refurbished. Tear it down.
Words that oppress us are always accessible, force- fed or spoon-fed and now on the tip of our tongues. These tiny tools are used in the construction of consciousness. There will always be linguistic support for what is, for hand-me-down existences. We will need to...
While Christians espouse the view that we are all God’s children, too often we point to those who have gifts or talents we value. Saying that everyone is somebody is not comparable to giving everyone a trophy for merely existing but treating everyone as valuable...
We need a mystical spirituality of “somebodiness.” Not to be confused with celebrity status or self-righteousness, there is a need for a deep sense of knowing who we are as human beings.