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On Racial Reconciliation

Want to know why the black community is in shambles? I have one word: desegregation.

Many black folks (and almost all white folks) are uncomfortable with this truth, but the price of desegregation was the systematic deconstruction of the black community. Because of desegregation, black kids were bused far away from their homes and communities in the name of progress.

I’m not saying that desegregation was bad or unnecessary—indeed the horrible inequality in the education whites received as opposed to blacks was deplorable, but the insidious truth is our current education system is de facto segregation. It is across socioeconomic lines, and it just so happens that minorities are those most represented in lower socioeconomic groups. Desegregation didn’t work because white America had not yet addressed their unconscious racism.

When I hear pleas for racial reconciliation I laugh inwardly. Hypothetically, I would love for blacks and whites to reconcile nationally. I wish we could all hold hands, hug each other, and leap from the sheer joy racial reconciliation would bring. This, however, is a utopian fantasy. America was not ready for desegregation in the 50s for the same reason we are not ready for racial reconciliation now.

Before reconciliation can be actualized, there must first be accountability. The accountability of which I speak is not one in which our nation admits that slavery, racism and the like are wrong, but what I envision is an existential accountability; an accountability firmly rooted in the passing of laws that enable people of all races, religions, and sexual orientations to actualize their full potentialities.

I’m not trying to hear anything anyone (especially white) has to say about reconciliation until we first discuss accountability. I refuse to support reconciliation with a race of people who are either unconsciously or consciously racist. Dressing me up in a suit, giving me a scholarship, and patting yourself on the back for tokenism under the guise of multiculturalism only to satisfy your white guilt is not progress. Until we discuss the way in which white America has suppressed subversive narratives, I say to hell with your reconciliation.

Far too many black have begun to believe that the white establishment accepts them. They have not. You are a slave culturally, psychologically, and economically; the dangerous part is that you just don’t know it.

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The Truth

Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11.

That's all.

Thank you, have a nice day.

The Loneliness

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Disillusionment

I am beginning to become disillusioned with Religious Studies.

Once upon a time, I desired to engage theology that I may do my part to edify the Black Church and illuminate the social ills about which the church have either remained silent or have exacerbated. Further, I desired to engage like minded individuals that we may gain new ideas about how to actualize the liberation potentialities within our respective communities.

It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that Black (and almost all) Churches are completely divorced from and, in some cases, outright hostile to theology. Further, the like minded individuals I once desired to engage (in almost every school of religion I've encountered) spend more time critiquing how others actualize justice rather than focusing on how to best serve.

I may leave theology and religion to focus on my second love--philosophy. There is much work to do in that discipline, for there are little to no minorities engaging that which is important to said minorities philosophically. Also, philosophy is in need of the wake-up call Cone gave theology. Not to say I'm able to do it, but it is needed.

I don't know; we'll see. I'm just tired of lackluster theological scholarship and bullshit praxis perpetrating as practical liberation theology.