It doubled down on the Lost Cause, endorsed racial terrorism during the Redemption era, blessed the leaders of Jim Crow, and continues to endorse racist policies as traditional values under the guise of a "religious right." As a Christian minister myself, I understand why, for my entire ministry, the number of people who choose not to affiliate with any religious tradition has doubled each decade. “Though slavery officially ended after the Civil War, the Christianity that blessed white supremacy did not go away. I’d rather focus on their faces, their names.”įour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Though I know who caught them, sold them, bought them, I’m not qualified.Īnd you? How’s your reach? Are you qualified? A grief so thick I could touch it.Īnd Jesus said of his wound, Go on, touch it.īut I don’t have the reach. Think of life after life on the Atlantic. Think of those who landed in the Atlantic, I’d like to write a list of what we lost. Think of those who landed in the Atlanticīodies walking upright on the mud at the bottomĪfter life on the Atlantic-this present griefĪnd Jesus said of his wound Go on, touch it
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