"Church" as FORTRESS??
Bishop Richard Allen, (1760-1831), grew tired of the Segregation, and degrading treatment blacks received within the few white churches that deigned to "minister", at that time, to anyone who was not white; founded the first independent black denomination in the United States, in 1794. In 1964, 170 years later, Martin Luther King observed that 11:00 a.m. on Sunday Morning, is the "most segregated hour" in the Nation. The variety of laws, rules, and regulations, invented by whites to keep non-whites excluded, from their Faith, has been accompanied with infusion of color racism into the other U. S. Institutions that are controlled by whites. Republicans are engaged in furious machinations to keep racism embedded in our Politics.
Fast-Forwad to 2015, 100 years after Hollywood lead our Media down this road of degrading and excluding Blacks from the Human Race, in the movie: Birth of a Nation; and we find our modern high-tech televised MEDIA, divided along the Color Line. FOX is the home-region Media for hard-bitten white supremacist viewers; while CNN has grafted some non-white faces onto their highly-scripted coverage, and began favoring Israel. The rest of our Media is deeply wedded to the tradition of keeping our Media "white"! EXCEPT for Alajerra America; it, alone, seems to konw that the "numbers" and Time are not on the side of our MEDIA and its "color-line-Reporting. Our knowledge of what is happeining in the world is badly skewed as a result! Our Meida is where politicians go to "bash" President Obama. Our "dysfunctional" governing is rooted in racial Media bias. Young Politicians, from Rubio to Cruz, are "cutting their teeth" on ways to play the color line.
In a "Christian" Nation, (as Republicans proudly proclaim); old, "Christian" practices need to be scrutinized very carefully, before Time runs out, and non-whites turn away completely!! It is very easy for our politicians to orchestrate "mob-thought" and actions!
Stay Vigilant! EVERYTHING; from issues like Zimmerman and Killer Cops, to matters of War and Peace, and to "profiling" are impacted negatively! At a time when religiously-driven violence is growing around the world; close contemplation of how we must change our beliefs and practices, is paramount!
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