These are the slides from my talk at the 2012 Wild Goose Festival West on race. There is a little bio, some scripture and then the 10 things people have said to me about race that are not helpful when talking about race. Please feel free to "liberate" as much as you way. Photos are from Flickr and used under CCLI, so please attribute if you use any of them.

1. Are we STILL
Talking about
race?
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Wild Goose Festival West 2012
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2. Road Map of the Day
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3. Road Map of the Day
Me
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4. Road Map of the Day
Me
My Fabulous and Flawed Families
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5. Road Map of the Day
Me
My Fabulous and Flawed Families
Power and Ears
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6. Road Map of the Day
Me
My Fabulous and Flawed Families
Power and Ears
10 unhelpful things we say to one
another about race that makes it
really hard to talk about race.
Photo by allisonhare
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7. Road Map of the Day
Me
My Fabulous and Flawed Families
Power and Ears
10 unhelpful things we say to one
another about race that makes it
really hard to talk about race.
Questions and Comments
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8. about.bruce
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9. about.bruce
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10. about.bruce
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11. about.bruce
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12. about.bruce
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13. about.bruce
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14. My Fabulous and
Flawed Families
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15. My Fabulous and
Flawed Families
Presbyterian Church (USA).
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16. My Fabulous and
Flawed Families
Presbyterian Church (USA).
Emergent, emergent, convergence,
hyphen-mergent, postmodern.
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17. My Fabulous and
Flawed Families
Presbyterian Church (USA).
Emergent, emergent, convergence,
hyphen-mergent, postmodern.
Progressive, thoughtful, integrated,
spiritual, passionate, forgiving,
complex, funny and willing . . .
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18. My Fabulous and
Flawed Families
Presbyterian Church (USA).
Emergent, emergent, convergence,
hyphen-mergent, postmodern.
Progressive, thoughtful, integrated,
spiritual, passionate, forgiving,
complex, funny and willing . . .
Aging genX’er, Jesus-y, Hipster-ish
who believes that despite our flaws
we offer an amazingly transformative
expression of the holy.
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19. Galatians 3:28
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20. Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
neither slave nor free,
neither male nor female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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21. Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
ETHNICITY
neither slave nor free,
neither male nor female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Photo by Kalexanderson
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22. Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
ETHNICITY
neither slave nor free,
ECONOMICS
neither male nor female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Photo by Kalexanderson
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23. Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
ETHNICITY
neither slave nor free,
ECONOMICS
neither male nor female,
GENDER
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Photo by Kalexanderson
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24. Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
ETHNICITY
neither slave nor free,
ECONOMICS
neither male nor female,
GENDER
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
POWER, JUSTICE AND INCLUSION
Photo by Kalexanderson
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25. Acts 2:6
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26. Acts 2:6
When they heard this sound, a crowd
came together in bewilderment,
because each one heard their own
language being spoken.
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27. Acts 2:6
When they heard this sound, a crowd
came together in bewilderment,
because each one heard their own
language being spoken.
SUMMONED INTO A MIRACLE OF HEARING
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28. Acts 2:6
When they heard this sound, a crowd
came together in bewilderment,
because each one heard their own
language being spoken.
SUMMONED INTO A MIRACLE OF HEARING
So with more instigation than
answers, let’s talk about race.
10 in 15.
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29. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY ROBERT MADEIRA
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30. What We Tell Ourselves
“If you would stop talking about
race, racism wouldn’t be a problem.”
“You are a racist because you talk
about race.”
AVOIDANCE
PHOTO BY ROBERT MADEIRA
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31. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY DARWINBELL
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32. What We Tell Ourselves
“Race is a social construct”
STAGNATION BY SEMANTICS
PHOTO BY DARWINBELL
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33. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY DIONNEHARTNETT
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34. What We Tell Ourselves
“I know what it’s like to be Asian.”
PRIVILEGE and ROMANTICIZING
PHOTO BY DIONNEHARTNETT
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35. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY FURIOUSGEORGE81
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36. What We Tell Ourselves
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“But, I don’t see you as Asian”
COLOR-BLINDNESS AND THE
RACIAL MIDDLE
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37. What We Tell Ourselves
1920’S, CENTRAL VALLEY, CA
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38. What We Tell Ourselves
“But it’s so much better then it
used to be.”
GENERATIONAL LAURELS and
INSTITUTIONAL JUSTIFICATION
1920’S, CENTRAL VALLEY, CA
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39. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY STÉFAN
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40. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY STÉFAN
“White people are being discriminated
against now too, so . . .”
POWER and PERSPECTIVE
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41. What We Tell Ourselves
ILLUSTRATION BY LLOYD MARCUS
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42. What We Tell Ourselves
“You always play the race card.”
WHITE GUILT
ILLUSTRATION BY LLOYD MARCUS
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43. Things We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY JACKHEART
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44. Things We Tell Ourselves
“We need at least one brown person.”
TOKENISM
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45. What We Tell Ourselves
Photo by geodanny
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46. What We Tell Ourselves
“We can’t force diversity”
THE SIN OF OPEN SOURCE
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47. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY KKOSHY
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48. What We Tell Ourselves
PHOTO BY KKOSHY
“We must be a ‘multicultural’ church.”
COMMODIFYING and CO-OPTING
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49. Last Things
Questions and comments . . .
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50. Are we STILL
Talking about
race?
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Wild Goose Festival West 2012
PHOTO BY ERICCONSTANTINEAU
#WILDGOOSE12 | @BREYESCHOW