Unconscious fears of Racism

The Current issue of NCR features an article entitled Race, Racism Engages Us At A Gut Level by Marqutte University Theology Professor Bryan N. Massingale. He has discovered that preconceptions about race that emerge from the shores of the unconscious must be acknowledged in the classroom or it impedes intellectual engagement with the study material. Being Black himself he has encountered being a walking Rorschach Inkblot for the Non-Rational Fears and Anxieties of even his closest colleagues.
He goes on to cite the approach of Barack Obama to this daunting phenomenon in his call for unqualified Love in our Faith and says, ' We can't help what we feel, but we can decide not to be controlled by our feelings '.
In counselling his charges , Psychiatrist Alfred Adler reassured them that feelings are not facts.
Let's keep working the common ground and rejoice in the uniqueness we all bring to the table.