From an article i was asked to write about why identity still matters from a Christian perspective, and how it relates to racism now: viewing one another as God’s poetry…:
  Equally, each people group reflects a unique aspect of who God is. Each family of people, a uniquely contoured statement from God about Himself. For we are part of His autobiography. This is why we cannot dismiss one another.
 If we truly see others as creations and reflections of parts of who God is, racism becomes impossible, unpronounceable. Identity necessitates a love of God. For if we truly behold one another in love, we will know there is a God.
  No one can be dismissed from love. To reject Love is like rejecting air. To reject one another, is to reject His Way of expressing Himself. For it is like rejecting a part of who God is. Or, refusing to read and love His poetry! For scripture teaches us, that we are the poems of God (Ephesians 2:10).
 Who are we to reject His poetry, which He died to pronounce. So, we celebrate ourselves as we celebrate others, in thankfulness and as a reflection of who God is.
  Then, we actively dignify and affirm one another, as poems of God. Our identities are made intact or more whole by Love. Since we all become socially, through loving relationship, we will to proactively love one another, as He first proactively loved us, as the Good Book puts it.
  We love one another in wonder and awe of who God actually is. And as a meditation on His Being. Being stunned by the sheer beauty of His poetry of one another.
  To see the poetry of one another, each, person, people group, family, ethnicity, city and nation, as  an aspect of a nuanced, cadenced, verse in an endless song about who God is… and to meet God there, with and through one another, in His Singing, of His Own social diversity and unity, His Song of Himself (The Three in One, the Social God with unity and diversity in Himself—to sing the Shema, in other words) must become our collective spirituality, especially if we are to thwart the ways of racism, the ways of “it-ing” one another in fear and pride, our two great human sins, which choke the poetry we are meant to be.
This is to meet God for His Own sake, and in His Own style of expression, to meet Him in His Identity, rather than our own. In doing so, we discover our own identity.
 For we know His words, His speech, His poetry, which we are, is eternal, and grounds our worth in His Heart. So, if we really treat our neighbor as a poem of God, everything will change, and racism will begin to be eradicated, starting in our hearts, which is where all true movements begin.