...when a religion that became euro-centric, to the point of justifying racial enslavement and oppression in an entire nation for hundreds of years, ended up becoming the hope, drive, and power of the very people it was aimed at to oppress.
Miracles do exist, let's not overlook them. Sometimes they don't look the way we want, but they exist....when after being a people exploited and oppressed for generations economically, socially, sexually, mentally, and physically by the leadership of white America, many blacks today choose to trust in Jesus Christ (the One preached to them by their oppressors) enough to follow Him into churches and assemblies of white leadership.*
...when 80 years after the "Sundown Laws" of Californian cities, black and white brothers and sisters in Christ are worshiping their Lord in the same churches.
So the next time slavery comes up in conversation and someone is told to "get over it," remember the impossible thing that many blacks have already done
Forgive.
#JustKeepinItReal cause #KeepinItQuietHelpsNoOne
Ran into -->this<-- while I was writing this post. I like it. You should read it. :D
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*I am aware of the fact that Christianity had already spread to Africa before the time of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade and that some African slaves who were taken were already believers. This would make their particular case of keeping the faith even more of a miracle. Imagine the injustices they had to experience from people that they were reborn to call "brother" and "sister."
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