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What’s Wrong with this Picture?

I still can’t believe such a thing like what’s depicted in the picture below is still being manufactured  and circulated in what many Americans incorrectly call  “post-racial” age (really?). Unfortunately, the “Lil’ monkey”  toy is suggestively a Christmas gift for children of  the ages of 3 and up. Do we, Americans, want to  raise racist [...]

France and Racism

BlackFace French VOGUE Cover: High Fashion or Racist?

CNN: Lou Dobbs or Latinos in America?

Race, class and opportunity

Race, class and opportunity: Part 1
Race, class and opportunity Pt.2
Race, class and opportunity Pt.3
Race, class and opportunity Pt.4

J. Kameron Carter’s Lecture on “Language and the Theological Roots of Scientific Classification: Jose de Acosta and the Production of Modernity’s Racial Imagination”

Source: flyingfarther

Phililp Schaff, human freedom, and “the negro question”

Phililp Schaff, human freedom,  and “the negro question”
The great Swiss reformed theologian and prominent Protestant church historian, Philip Schaff (1819-1893), did not favorably anticipate or encourage emancipation of African slaves in America because that was not a concern in his theological project. His hermeneutical horizon did not make room for a theologically-transcendent vision of justice, that would allow black [...]

Was Jesus a racist?

Miguel De La Torre    says Yes. God Says NO!  (John 3:16) .
Who is Right? God or Miguel.
I’ll go with God.