Martin Luther King Jr. on His Biggest Mistake
“Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | In 1964, after he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat down for a series of interviews with the author...
View ArticleI Want To Be An Activist
“I want to be an activist.” These were the words of Henry, a six year old, after hearing an abridged version of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech at a Middle Project Freedom School...
View ArticleReframing the Narrative By Asserting your Humanity
In the past few days I’ve been repeatedly asked the same two questions: Where is the hope? And what is the solution? For the oppressed person my answer is this: The continuous assertion of your...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Rachel Dolezal’s Backlash And Why She Faked Being Black
By now you’ve probably heard of Rachel Dolezal, this morning she announced her resignation as the president of the Spokane, Washington NAACP, in the “best interest of the NAACP.” Rachel sparked a...
View ArticleA Case for Serial Monogamy
Originally, I started off this post by rhetorically asking if you knew the difference between a married person’s love life and a non-married person’s love life?[1] I followed this by answering, “The...
View ArticleWhen Will We Admit that American Christianity is the Same Thing as White...
[Photo Credit: Jeff Hood] Watching the news and hearing about the repeated acts of violence against the black-american life reminds me of my “enlightenment/introduction” to modern day white supremacy...
View ArticleHow You Can Help Fight Racism, And 7 Books to Read
But in my opinion, and experience so far, if someone is unwilling to read something outside of their comfort zone, in order to better understand and empathize with a friend or family member, then they...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Revolutionary or Politician?
After Al Gore won the election in 2000, and then somehow lost, I disconnected for a bit from politics, I was too young for that. But, as of recently I’ve been re-engaging slowly, but steadily. And now,...
View ArticleHow is Race a Social Construction
It’s needs to be re-emphasized that none of this is to suggest race doesn’t matter, or that race is irrelevant to one’s identity. We must remember that, as Vox recently highlighted, “Race may have no...
View ArticleBack on Patheos: A Short Update and The Plan
Damn, so much is happening in my life right now; I shut down my site, and then brought it back here on Patheos, I’ve moved down to Philly staying (very temporarily) with the Claiborne’s, Katie Jo and...
View Article“How do we call people in even as we call them out?”
I recently lost yet another a white friend over “the issue of race.” It was after repeatedly confronting him in regards to his consistent use of the “n-word.” He wasn’t the first close friend I’ve...
View ArticleInterview: “Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians...
Okay, so I’m restarting this whole “podcast” thing. I’m putting the word podcast in quotes because it’s not on iTunes as of yet. I’ll put it up sooner than later there, but I just want to see if these...
View ArticleIs Donald Trump a White Supremacist?
Trump is a symbolic representation of American buffoonery. He’s every hyperbolized reason, and then some, as to why people (both in and out of) the states are disgusted by our ironic “exceptionalism.”...
View ArticleThe Celebrity Pastor: Are Celebrity Pastors Inherently Wrong?
I’ve written pretty honestly on similar topics before, what re-stirred my interest in this topic was a recent article in Christianity Today, highlighting a guy named Rich Wilkerson Jr. who recently...
View ArticleThe Pastor’s Salary: Should Pastors Make 500K?
Here’s the question: Is it ethical for a pastor to receive a salary that is over $500,000.00? If this were a paper for a class, my thesis would say something along the lines of, “It’s unethical for a...
View Article15 Reasons Millennials [STILL] Don’t Go to Church
I can’t remember the last time I went to Church (a Sunday service). I honestly don’t know many people (not just millennials) that have, Christian or not. But, I was asked a while back on a repost of an...
View ArticleChristian Extremists: Is Jerry Falwell White Isis?
Can we talk about Christian extremism for a second? How it’s unnecessarily perpetuating an “us vs. them” narrative. And seemingly, getting more and more ridiculous over the course of our existence and...
View ArticleWhite Privilege is a Myth
The biggest misunderstanding of white privilege is that simply because you are white, you then automatically possess more privilege than someone who is black, Asian, Latino, i.e. “nonwhite.” I’m...
View ArticleAlan Manning Chambers of Exodus International: Where He is at Since Shutting...
I sat down with Alan Manning Chambers, the former president of Exodus International. He shut down the organization in 2013, in the interview he states that he came into the organization with the...
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