Jesus Wore A Hoodie - Rodney Coates

Jesus (Yeshua) wore a Hoodie.....

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Today we wear the hood

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For the brothers lost on the cross of despair

Sacrificed on the altar of hatred and bigotry

Forgotten on the sea of forgetfulness

Stranded on the pane of tragedy

Murdered on the cusp of anonymity

For you –today we wear the hood.

 

Silent tears shed on another grave

Dreams deferred for another time

Heads draped in sadness as another dies

Plans for a future lost in the storm

Love displaced by acts of rage

For you-today we wear the hood.

 

Remembered saints that walked among us

Young buds cut down before their blooms

Strange fruit hangs from this popular vine

Songs without melodies or rhymes

Lives without completion or fruition

For you –today we wear the hood.

 

In recognition of your life and our loss

In acknowledgement of our pain and sorrow

In harmony with the forces of eternity

In respect of love and living

In refusing to become a victim

For you-today we wear the hood.

 

Rodney D. Coates

Professor and Interim Director of Black World Studies

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Rodney D. Coates* born in East St. Louis, Ill., received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University, a M.A. in sociology and anthropology from the University of Illinois, a second M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He holds the rank of professor in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology, for 15 years Directed the Black World Studies Program at Miami University. Dr. Coates specializes in the study of race and ethnic relations, inequality, critical race theory, and social justice. Coates serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review; Social Forces; and Race, Class and Gender. He is also on the executive boards of the Southern Sociological Society and Sociologists without Borders. Dr. Coates is the immediate past chair of the Section of Race and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association, and has served in similar capacities for the Southern Sociological Society. He has published dozens of articles; several edited books, and frequently writes on issues of race and ethnicity, education and public policy, civil rights and social justice. His 2004 edited book Race and Ethnicity: Across time, space and discipline won the Choice award from the American Library Association. This past summer Coates received the Joseph Himes Career Award in Scholarship and Activism from the Association of Black Sociologists. He is currently finalizing an edited volume on /Covert Racism/ for Oxford University Press.