More Than a Label
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”– Martina Navratilova I see him in the corner, this scruffy man with long hair in his wheelchair.…
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Should Text Messages Be Blue or Green?
—Grace & Truth Linkup
What Color Is Your Text Message? If you have an iPhone and you text, you’ve seen the colored text bubbles. By default, if someone’s words arrive in a blue text…
Read moreWhite Supremacy at Church?
“When this country gonna love us?” he asked. “I don’t know, bro,” I said. – Danté Stewart We don’t like talking about this subject: white supremacy at church. As a…
Read moreWhen History Literally Makes You Sick
“I was oblivious to what I didn’t even know. I was blind, but I didn’t know I was blind. And that’s the most dangerous blindness of all.”– Daniel Hill, White…
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Racism Hurts Everybody, Not Just Its Victims
—Book Review of "The Sum of Us"
Rather than have Blacks swim in their public swimming pool, the city of Montgomery, WV, hired city contractors to pour cement into the pool over 50 years ago. Racism is…
">Read moreWhen You Don’t Know the Other—Contact Bias {Bias Day 18}
What is contact bias? Contact bias is when we can’t relate to another because we’ve had no sustained personal contact with them. Whether due to lack of opportunity or lack…
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