We can celebrate the light of Easter without demonizing darkness and reinscribing a white supremacist dialectic on Christ and the resurrection. My blackness is radiant, luminous and will not and does not need to be made white as snow. The blood of Jesus will not make me white. We must learn to talk about brokenness in the world without reducing evil to darkness and goodness to light. Blackness is God’s good gift.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Sweet Darkness
• Dark Matter: “An Intriguing Aspect of the Universe”
• Photo of the Day, 5/3/2015: “Black Is Sacred”
• “And Still We Rise!” – Mayday 2015 (Part I)
• “And Still We Rise!” – Mayday 2015 (Part II)
• Something to Think About – March 25, 2016
• Rallying in Solidarity with Eric Garner and Other Victims of Police Brutality
• In Minneapolis, Rallying in Solidarity with Black Lives in Baltimore
• “Say Her Name” Solidarity Action
• “We Are All One” – #Justice4Jamar and the 4th Precinct Occupation
• Remembering Philando Castile and Demanding Abolition of the System That Targets and Kills People of Color
• Dark Matters
• Holy Week, 2020
• Jesus: The Revelation of Oneness
• Easter Bodiliness
• Considering Resurrection
• The Triumph of Love: An Easter Reflection
Image: Lil Buck, photographed by Jacob Sutton (2011). Charles “Lil Buck” Riley (born May 25, 1988) is an American dancer, actor and model from Memphis, Tennessee who specializes in a style of street dance called jookin. He gained popularity after director Spike Jonze used his cell phone to record an interpretive performance of “The Dying Swan” by Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma. The performance went viral on YouTube. Since then Lil Buck has collaborated with a broad spectrum of artists including JR, Madonna, Benjamin Millepied, and Spike Lee. Buck is an avid arts education advocate, recipient of the WSJ Innovator Award, collaborates frequently with global brands including Apple, Lexus, and Louis Vuitton, and recently launched a capsule collection with Versace.
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