Category: On Being Black
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 7: IMANI
True believers understand that salvation is a deed-less experience, that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. That we find redemption in receiving the forgiveness purchased by the blood shed on the cross. But there IS another step thereafter. That same faith, when fully formed through the hearing of the word, produces…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 6: KUUMBA
The creative mind of God is immeasurable—something that mankind has spent its existence investigating in an ongoing attempt to extricate the source and replicate the perfection thereof. From DNA strands and quarks, to particle accelerators and space missions, to the Tower of Babel and astrology and the so-called ascended masters, we’ve been trying to reproduce…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #5: NIA
When God created mankind God did so with intention, making man in His own image and taking time to shape the form of man with His own hands and breathe into man life. Within the breath of God is a portion of God’s character, and that is PURPOSE. We are shaped in it, born with…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #4: UJAMAA
One of the things that I love about Jesus that He held no punches. He had a lot to say about people and their hearts regarding money, one being this: show me what you spend money on and I’ll show you where that person’s heart is at. (Matthew 6:21 Kisha’s version). Many of us have…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #3: Ujima
One of the great mysteries of the believer’s walk of faith is the belief that God exists in a plural state of oneness. This is no theology lesson on today; but I want to point out to you that from the very beginning, God has modeled for us the perfection of the collective. In Genesis…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 2: Kujichagulia
A critical missing piece of my personal puzzle has been understanding and accepting without fear and uncertainty “who I am”. And not only “who I am” but am I being all that I have been created, called, and purposed to be? The excessively outward living that we have always done in this nation—white-ward, heavenward, money-ward,…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 1: UMOJA
We have such misguided ideas about what unity is, what it looks like, how it works. Unity comes from the idea of a unit, and units have many moving parts—not the exact same parts, but many different equally important parts that allow a thing to work effectively. A successful civilization works because there are many…
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Expand your allyship: READ A BOOK
I rarely engage in discussions about race/racism anymore because most of my white counterparts generally stick their fingers in their ears and go, “Lalalalala, I can’t hear you!” “You should be nicer and maybe I’d listen to you!” “That’s too hard! That’s too much work!” 🙄😒 But: to my educators who are white, I promise…
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Frustrated Black Girl
I’m frustrated. You tell black girls to love themselves, then set about praising everything that is opposite of who they might be: if it’s light skinned/white, skinny, petite, “demure”, small, wavy/straight haired, not “too loud”, certainly not too black or sure of itself. You tell them they can’t be all the things they are, to…
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ALLYShip Not ENCROACHMENT
One of my union mates and colleagues is doing a pole for her community about labels and identity. I wanted to say something SOOOO BAD—mostly a “This is so AWESOME because it was so deep and interesting and helpful to ME”, but I didn’t. Cuz it was none of my business. It’s not MY community.…
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