Ms. Humpty Dumpty and the Real Pain of Racism
(Includes message written by Rev. Eddie K. Edwards and myself “Laying the Axe to the Root”)
Racism doesn’t just break systems. It can break people.
In Ms. Humpty Dumpty and the Real Pain of Racism, Dr. Mary Darlene Edwards turns the familiar nursery rhyme into a powerful analogy for the African American experience of racism, inequality, stereotypes, and the painful legacy of inferiority.
But Ms. Humpty Dumpty’s story doesn’t end with the fall.
In “Laying the Axe to the Root of Racism and Inferiority,” Dr. Edwards and her late husband, Rev. Eddie K. Edwards, offer a biblical perspective on confronting the roots of racist lies through truth, prayer, spiritual warfare, forgiveness, and faith.
Honest, challenging, and ultimately hopeful, this book asks us not only to acknowledge the pain of racism, but to consider what it will take to heal from it—and to stop passing its wounds from one generation to the next.
The fall may have been real. But brokenness does not have to be the end of the story.