In our discussion about race and implicit oppression:
If you manipulate history, you manipulate consciousness. If you manipulate consciousness, you manipulate possibilities. If you manipulate possibilities, you manipulate power.
Seems about right. When we tell a history in a particular way, we can change how we think about ourselves (we’re pretty good, right?) and change how what possibilities we consider and ultimately the power. We talked about this especially when white folk ignore or deny the Blackness of biblical figures.
Also overheard here at our faculty retreat: “That’s going to hurt. Us 40-50 somethings have played basketball both nights. We’re not a particularly in shape group and so we can feel the creaks and the pains a comin.
Musings on Faith and Psychology 
OK….pray tell, what exactly is the “blackness of biblical figures” ? And if there is a “whiteness” of biblical figures, how would I recognize that?
It is undeniable that some figures in the Bible are Black (and not the curse of Ham). Unfortunately, there have been folks (and still are some) who argue that Egyptians, Nubians, and others with clear references to Black skin (names and other identifiers) aren’t Black.
Someone might wonder why admitting that some biblical characters are black matters. It especially matters to oppressed people groups that they find themselves on the pages of Scripture instead of defined as those worthy only of servitude.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.