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Critical Race Theory & Theology: An Introduction
Image via Wikipedia Sonja from Women In Theology sent me this BLOG POST via e-mail. Although I posted on BIRTHERISM & THE MOVIE THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT YESTERDAY, I thought I would take the...
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Show Me Your Papers: Obama, Osama, and Certificates
T.C. Moore of of Being T.C. sent me the following video via facebook message. I thought I should share it. Consider the whole quest for Obama’s birth certificate, and bin Laden’s death certificate, I...
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Why This Black Man Doesn’t Like the Voting Rights Act
In my series from a while back, “THE TERRIBLE TWO PARTY SYSTEM”, I argued that proportional representation, rather than what we have now,which depends on majoritarianism. Majoritarianism, in terms of...
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White Skin, Black Masks: Sammy Sosa, Beyonce, Fanon, & Beauty
Last night, there was an uproar on “Black Twitter” how Sammy Sosa bleached his skin. Yes, really first steroids, now this. Our concepts of beauty, whether it is male or female have been racialized for...
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No, Black People Did Not Descend From Ham
Image via Wikipedia A TALE OF 2 CURSES AND 1 RACIST HISTORY This morning when I woke up to get ready for work, I got sidetracked by reading T.C.’s post on an outrageous claim made by a Dallas bible...
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A City Upon A Hill: Ronald Reagan & Frantz Fanon
““You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.” - From the words of Jesus the Messiah according to the Jewish tax collector, Matthew Call it chauvinistic, but our heritage does...
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New Group on Facebook: Theology and Critical Race Theory
I editted one of my groups that facebook allowed me to update, I had been considering the change for a while. “This is a group which seeks both to investigate the the histories of theology in its role...
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Book Review: Willie Jennings’ The Christian Imagination: Theology and the...
Gentile Christian Critical Race Theorists Should Know Their Place I have been engaged in Critical Race Theory for a while now. Even though I could consider myself a late comer to this game, I could...
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Book Review: Shelby Steele’s The Content of Our Character
A New Vision of Race in America As a black (Left) libertarian, I have sympathies with many of the arguments put forth by black conservative thinkers. As an aspiring critical race theorist I feel that...
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Race: A Theological Account by @JKameronCarter
PATRISTIC THEOLOGY AS WHITE’S ONLY PIE One of my favorite movies from my teen years has to be LIFE (1999) starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. Lawrence’s character, Claude, at the beginning of...
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Why yes, John Piper, the Gospel is in fact Anti-racist
The Importance of Open & Relational Models of Ministry It is always heart-breaking to hear fellow believers in Christ put down Christian, let alone any other effort, to fight racism. I would like...
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TWO Black Dudes Not Named #SteveJobs also died this week
The other day, Racialicious and Resist Racism had tributes to Derrick Bell, the late lawyer and critical race theorist. A gorram awful post at The Grio thanked Steve Jobs for his “empowering of black...
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Partying with the Illegal Immigrant Pinata: On Tonight’s #CNNDebate
the most racist frakking debate ever, no I mean it. ever Tonight’s Republican Presidential Debate in Nevada was obviously a home game for Mitt Romney, and the home crowd had its way, cheering for it’s...
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Grimm: Bears Will Be Bears
It’s official. NBC’S GRIMM has won me over. Well, that happened last week within the first two minutes of the pilot, of which, Amanda Mac and I butted heads over in the typical, boys are better than...
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If I Were A Rich White Dude Who Works for Forbes Magazine
This is a satirical response (what it deserves) to Gene Mark’s post on Forbes Online: “If I Were A Poor Black Kid” If I were a rich white dude who works for Forbes Magazine, I would try to show how...
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Why Are Forbes Magazines’ Writers So Racist?: A Look at the Top 1%
In what should be called “Forbes Hates Racial Minorities Week,” yesterday, John Koppisch wrote an EPIC, and by EPIC, I mean anything-but-groundbreaking racist propaganda against Native Americans. One...
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The Pro Sports Plantation: Fanon And the Black Body
“what do you call an educated negro with a B.A. or an M.A., with a B.S., or a PhD?” The answer? “You call him a nigger, because that is what the white man calls him, a nigger.”- Malcolm X “However, it...
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Celucien Joseph on New Testament Studies and Racial Discourse
Lou Joseph, continuing to re-read and reflect on J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological Account, has started to ask what does Carter’s work mean for biblical studies, particularly the Quests for...
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2 New Projects on Zora Neale Hurston and Theology
Zora Neale Hurston A week or so ago, I had mentioned that Celucien Joseph, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, and I are scheduled to do a panel on Black Religions and the Harlem Renaissance at the 2012...
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Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion: A New Scholarly Society
On the wall of Theology and Critical Race Theory Facebook Group, Celucien Joseph posted a link to a new Scholarly Society, The Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion. Here is the description: “Nuestro...
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