by Starlette Thomas | Jun 27, 2026 | Opinion, Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Coined by Robin DiAngelo, the phrase “white fragility” refers to a state in which even a minimal amount of “racial” stress becomes intolerable to individuals racialized as white, triggering defensive behaviors. I happen to think it’s nonsense. White ignorance often...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 22, 2026 | Opinion
Systemic racism is often reinforced through a structural, learned ignorance that allows dominant groups to misunderstand the world they inhabit. It is an intentional refusal to recognize the historical and ongoing structural advantages of one group over another due to...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 8, 2026 | Opinion
White-body supremacy demands silence. Not to be confused with a genuine fear of saying the wrong thing, a lack of knowledge or the desire to avoid social conflict, this silence extracts, consolidates and directs all conceivable benefits towards whiteness. This...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 1, 2026 | Opinion
The politics of white-body supremacy make existence insufferable for marginalized people groups racialized as black and brown. That’s the point. Systems of white-body supremacy create an untenable environment by deeply embedding trauma into our physiological,...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 23, 2026 | Opinion
America is turning 250 in a few months and the Trump administration is taking its citizens down memory lane. Kidnapping and killing citizens and immigrants, converting warehouses to concentration camps, rolling back women’s rights, suppressing votes, and reengraving...
