Archive for March, 2009
Heading to Haiti
I’m hitting the road again.
No, not another book tour. I’ll be traveling the dusty roads of Haiti, helping to produce a video for Hearts and Hands for Haiti, a nonprofit agency that helps supports and train Haitian pastors and ministers.
Although writing scripts is not altogether new to me, producing a video is. So it should [...]
Once Upon a Time When I Was Black – Again
This is a repost of a piece I wrote in 2004.
There was a tap on my shoulder as I lifted my son to the monkey bars. I turned to face a white woman, brown hair, slight build, friendly smile.
She gestured with her hand toward a small boy playing in the sand behind her and explained, [...]
Tripping About Race
Author and New Yorker, Rich Benjamin, set out to write about race‚ and wrote about class instead.
In his In The Times interview about his new book, Benjamin says:
“President Obama’s historic election sparked a wellspring of good will across diverse social groups. We need briskly to leverage Obama’s “Yes, we can” spirit into lively debate and [...]
An Experiment in Racism?
The Ebony Experient YouTube link
Shortly after reading Ed Gilbreath’s post on the Ebony Experiment I peaked in to see what Jack Bauer was doing. Instead of seeing ‘24′ I saw a mini-showmercial of fictional President Taylor urging all ‘24′ listeners to reduce their carbon footprint.
In my mind’s eye, I imagined that this was not a [...]
Reconciling Humans
“Obama’s election in no way indicates that America is ‘post-racial.’ Are we so focused on reconciliation between each of our individual selves and God that we forget about the need for reconciliation between human beings?”
This is a quote that came out of one the many excellent sessions at the Student Congress on Racial [...]
The What Not to Talk About List
I’m not the talkative type but I have been known to “chat it up” especially when the topics deals with racial reconciliation. From around 1992 to 2002 my husband and I talked with plenty of good Christian folks (white and black) on a regular basis about everything ‘racial’ that you could think of.
It didn’t occur [...]
