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Why Anti-Racists Should Embrace “Being Divisive”
Photo by Pawel Janiak on Unsplash “I have come to set fire to the earth.” These are the words of a First Century Palestinian Rabbi and social activist. Today most people who quote
Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Race
No one in the history of humankind was born to be a person who speaks out about race. I’ve never heard a first grader say that they want to be
Jay Z, Colin Kaepernick, the NFL and “Harold’s Grass N Feed”
I’ve been asked enough about what I think about Jay-Z’s partnership with the NFL that I thought I would share my thoughts here in the form of a story. Imagine
The Talk – Part 2 (A Black Teenage Girl’s Poem)
We had driven out of the neighborhood, and my mind was working hard to try and answer my daughter’s questions. I knew that she was asking a simple question that
The Talk – Part 1 (A Black Teenage Girl’s Question)
I remember my dad giving me the talk as a thirteen-year-old boy. It wasn’t a sit-down. It wasn’t an awkward, choppy speech delivered in an uncomfortable tone, and it wasn’t
I’m Not a Socialist But…
I’m not a socialist, nor do I claim to be an expert on what it is. Full disclosure, I know very little about it from experience or study, and my
The “N” Word We Need to Use More Often
I once gave a talk about how circles are better than squares. It was a 9-minute speech with racial undertones. In the talk, I used the n-word a couple of different
The New White Moderate
In Dr. King’s breathtaking “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” he lamented the posture of white clergy towards the Negro liberation movement in Alabama. White people felt like the protests lead by
If We’re Being Honest
I’ve been a Christian for 35 years and have worked in churches for the past 20 years. I love Christians. I am a Christian. And as a Christian, I think
Not Safe For Church
A friend messaged me this video yesterday and asked what I thought of it. Initially, I wanted to have a conversation with the pastor…. I’m not sure I’ll ever get
