Views on achieving racial equality by Our Human Family
OHF Magazine Issue No 2: Honoring James Baldwin
James Baldwin, one of America’s foremost authors, activists, and playwright, is the muse of the latest issue of OHF Magazine ...
We Must See People in Color
Only when we white people can get to the place where we value Black lives equally as we do the lives of others can we say that Black lives matter ...
“Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together”
Our Human Family's new book "Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together" is an informal and informative guide to becoming an effective ally and covers ...
What You Loved Was the Cruelty
What you loved was the cruelty. The meanness, the spite, the ability to say whatever you wanted, to hurt anyone you wanted ...
When You’ve Been White Too Long
White too long is the inability to recognize that the system is rigged and their leaders, past and present, are the ones who rigged it ...
The Strange Paradox of White Privilege
There’s something in the grammar of how the concept of white privilege is introduced and discussed that virtually guarantees the actual meaning of the term will be misunderstood ...
All Black Is Beautiful, But All Black Isn't the Same
The mythical monolith of Black in America ...
To My Evangelical Faith Family
If the Jesus whom we follow can love the accepted and the rejected of society, then we can, with his grace and power, also love our neighbors as ourselves ...
Making the Past the Past
For white American Christians, racism is an extraordinarily stubborn sin, resistant to being identified, named as wrong, being called out as wrong, and being expunged from the life of the holy believer ...
Why Can’t We Acknowledge Systemic Racism?
This article is about those who don’t acknowledge systemic racism—those who may admit that America had a racist past but believe that racism ended long ago ...
The Invisible Scars of Microaggressions
Microaggressions are the crimes, impediments, and abuses committed by white people and People of Color because they dislike the color of a person’s skin or they’ve deemed certain racial and ethnic groups inferior to their own ...
When America Plays the Race Card
We’ve tried the same failed tactics and strategies again and again only to achieve the same tepid results. We’ve tried it all—except for the one mindset we should’ve tried from the beginning ...
Doing Right by Black People—and Not Just When It’s Convenient
It’s been a helluva week or two in America (not that most of them aren’t, these days). Just as I was getting my wits together enough to write about Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, we learned about Breonna Taylor getting shot to death ...
Michael Che, the Enlightenment, and Whiteness
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural ...
What Does Community Look Like?
It looks like the small town depicted in HGTV’s Home Town, with hosts Ben and Erin Napier leading the charge for home renovation, equality, and inclusion ...