“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. “(1) And still happening today: mass incarceration, voter suppression, violations of Black bodies, especially prevalent in discriminatory health care practices and police brutality. And yet, when reparations are mentioned, that is the …
In the preface to Osheta Moore’s book, Dear White Peacemakers, she relates a story about the high school coach calling her biracial son the N word in school. Other high schoolers heard him say it so there was plenty of evidence that he’d done it. Osheta was angry beyond angry, and hurt. She determined that …
Inspired by Dear White Peacemakers and Hidden Brain Podcasts on Forgiveness and Mercy Have you had that experience where an idea that surfaces in one place appears in a wholly unrelated place just a little bit later? I use that as a guide that the Holy Spirit is trying to tell me or teach me. …
Reflections on Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace by Osheta Moore Like many of you, I’ve begun the work to become increasingly anti-racist. I’d love to believe I can become fully so, but the more I learn, the more I’ve come to believe this will be a lot like my journey to …
Last week Debbie wrote about different types of courage. As a short review, these are the things she said: Try courage: it’s just what it seems. This is the courage to try something for the first time, or the first time in a long time. Trust courage is the courage to hand over parts of …
