Let's be 100% funky, only SELF HATING CO0NS Attack The Black Church

[Snitchin Splatter]

After witnessing a bunch of House Negroes cosigning a White Boy calling Black Christians Uncle Toms, I felt this was needed

Some of you sambos would still be sitting in the back of the bus and drinking from colored fountains if it wasn't for this group of born again proud black people who fought for your civil rights so you could freely shuck and jive and spit in their faces for the sacrifices they made for your ungrateful asses

whether you are a christian or not, there is NO denying that the Black Christian Church was instrumental in Black people gaining equal rights, and it really blows my mind how some of you tap-dancing house negroes would even fix your lips to call black christians "uncle toms"

I bet some of you rac00ns would love to throw on white hoods and start bombing Black Churches like this was the 60's again

Instead of harboring hate in my heart I'll just attempt to inform some of the uneducated

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/histor...rican-religious-leadership-and-civil-rights-m

African American Religious Leadership and the Civil Rights Movement
by Clarence Taylor


Book inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. to Fr. Tom Thrasher, an Episcopal priest from Montgomery. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
The modern Civil Rights Movement was the most important social protest movement of the twentieth century. People who were locked out of the formal political process due to racial barriers were able to mount numerous campaigns over three decades to eradicate racial injustice and in the process transform the nation. In its greatest accomplishment, the Civil Rights Movement successfully eliminated the American apartheid system popularly known as Jim Crow.


A major reason for the movement’s success was its religious leadership. The Reverends Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt T. Walker, Joseph Lowery, and Jesse Jackson were just a few of the gifted religious figures who played a national leadership role in the movement. In many instances black clergy became the spokespeople for campaigns articulating the grievances of black people, and they became the strategists who shaped the objectives and methods of the movement that sought to redress those grievances. Furthermore, they were able to win the allegiance of a large number of people and convince them to make great sacrifices for racial justice.

One trait that helped black ministers win support was their charismatic style of oratory, which was used both to convey meaning and to inspire people involved in the struggle for racial equality. The rhetoric that the ministers used explained that the civil rights participants were engaged in a religious as well as an historical mission. Ministers spoke of the holy crusade to force America to live up to its promise of democracy. For example, in a 1963 campaign to force the state of New York and the building-trade unions to hire black and Hispanic construction workers at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, ministers involved in the struggle told their congregations that they were part of a “moral and patriotic movement” to make America more democratic. “There will be no turning back until people in high places correct the wrongs of the nation,” the Reverend Gardner C. Taylor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn declared in a speech to a crowd of 6,000. Ministers like Taylor were able to use a certain rapidity, tempo, and reiteration in their sermons and speeches that evoked an emotional response from their audience. These performances convinced followers that their cause was right and that their pastors were called to a divine task by God. Many participants in the Birmingham, Alabama, bus boycott noted they became involved in the campaign because they were inspired by their charismatic pastors.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/420886?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102606030991

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

http://dikkinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/church.html

In order to fully appreciate the Black Church in the 20th Century, one must understand its origins. Historically, black churches have been the most important and dominant institutions in African American communities. They have had more influence in molding the thoughts and lives of African Americans than any other single factor. Until recently, however, the black church was predominantly a rural church. This can be attributed to an 1890 census which indicated that nine out of ten black people lived in the South and more than eighty percent of them in rural areas. Only after the two World Wars and the Korean War did a massive migration of Blacks to the urban north occur.

The Black rural church was characterized by a clergy that often held secular jobs in order to support themselves economically. Much of the black rural congregation was poor and although fiercely devoted to the pastor, could not adequately take care of the pastor's economic needs. The churches did not provide pension benefits or health insurance, and this forced the clergy to work long beyond their retirement age. Due to their lack of resources, black rural churches did not participate in many community outreach programs, and very seldomly supported black institutions devoted to higher learning. Despite these shortcomings, the greatest strength of the black rural church lies in the loyalty of its members towards each other and to the church. Even today, the rural church serves not only as a religious institution, but as a social club, a political arena, an art gallery, and a conservatory of music. In effect, the lives of the black rural church members are centered around their church.

http://dikkinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/church.jpg​

Before the mass migration of Blacks to the north, many Blacks living in the urban cities had already organized independent black denominations, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and their Baptist counterparts. During the period of migrations, the urban churches helped acculturate rural migrants to the urban environment. Participation in social outreach programs that provided services to the poor was spurned on by flamboyant messiahs like Father Divine. Eventually, however, the black urban churches began to reflect the differentiation, stratification, and pluralism which the urban environment encouraged. The secular roles that the black church had traditionally nurtured, including politics, education, economics, and even black culture, came under the guidance of institutions such as lodges, fraternities, and civil rights organizations like the NAACP. Furthermore, the congregation reflected economic and class stratification because of the availability of different kinds of jobs. The urban clergy, therefore, could devote themselves entirely to the church because their economic needs were met by those who were relatively affluent in the congregation. Higher learning was also encouraged, and the churches generously donated funds to Christian black colleges.

Due to the increased educational levels found among members of the congregation and the clergy, as well as new modes of communication, a sense of group identity among Blacks began to emerge. Influential thinkers, such as W.E.B. DuBois, encouraged blacks to associate with one another rather than to try to acculturate themselves into the white American society that always discriminated against them. He believed that organized group action along economic lines would allow blacks to earn a better living which would then allow them to support agencies for social uplift. Other social activists, who were products of the Harlem Renaissance, developed a new concept of the Negro. This "new Negro" had self-respect, self-dependence, a new outlook, and assumed roles of leadership. In effect, this new Negro would no longer subject himself to the humiliation heaped upon him by white America. With such revolutionary ideas emerging and taking root, the seeds for the Civil Rights Movement were quickly planted.

http://dikkinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/martin.jpg​

Beginning with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the Civil Rights Movement was anchored in the Black Church, organized by both activist black ministers and laity, as well as supported financially by black church members. Led by Martin Luther King, who combined his theological scholarship with the social gospel passed on to him by his father, the Civil Rights Movement was aimed at empowering the Negro because "Freedom is participation in power". The Black churches served as the major points of mobilization for mass demonstrations and meetings, and the church members actively helped the civil rights workers because of convictions that were religiously inspired. Although the Black Power Movement, which was seen as a cry of disappointment, was rejected by King because it advocated black separatism, other leaders, such as Malcolm X, advocated black nationalism and urged a revolution. Both leaders, however, recognized that the black community needed to gain economic independence while eliminating certain social evils, such as drug addiction and adultery.

http://dikkinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/2leaders.jpg
http://dikkinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/jackson.jpg Since the Civil Rights period, a revolution in consciousness that encompasses all Black institutions, including the Black Church, has emerged. Black liberation theology, the view that religion should be viewed and interpreted from a people’s own experience, has influenced the urban clergy. Black pastors are conscious of the need to provide black role models for their members and to support church-related black colleges. In addition, an interest in politics has reemerged, from the Reverend Jesse Jackson'spresidential candidacy bids in 1984 and 1988 to the election of thousands of black officials in large urban areas and small towns. The Black Church has played a significant role in the politics of the past and will continue to do so even though its political nature may be ambiguous at times because of its double African and American heritage.

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

http://thewestsidegazette.com/the-role-of-the-black-church-in-the-civil-rights-movement/

The role of the Black church in the Civil Rights Movement

By Vicki Phipps

The role of the church in every African American community played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement, but the role of the church began long before the revered Reverend, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born. It began with slavery.

African American churches still pray the same way today, with a spirit that comes from deep within the souls of their ancestors, the slaves. Oppression, rejection and segregation leave a human being with no one to turn to, but God. Hope came alive from spiritual songs, which were sung in the heat of southern plantations long ago. Without that old hope, the change to move to Civil Rights could not have come. It was hope that created the churches which were raised by faith, and it was the church that produced Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn’t about religion, but the spirit of so many souls who remained faithful to hope.

People can only be enslaved for just so long before they find the hope inside to rise up for justice. It took time to do, and we still have far to go, but the Black church produced Elvis Presley just as surely as it did Ray Charles.

Billy Graham came from that same southern heat, and preached from the same side of the pulpit as Martin Luther King, Jr. and through them, it changed our society.

Every time the words were sung from the songs of slavery, We Shall Overcome, it became an act of faith which created the need for change, and because of this, the Civil Rights Movement was destined to take place. The church stood by its leaders with that same hope and faith, which gave Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the words that were finally heard with opened minds: “I have been to the mountain top and I’ve seen the other side.”

In post slavery days, the church continued with the quest to civil liberty. In Alabama, The Brown Chapel AME Church played a pivotal role in the southern state marches and led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The church was built by a Black builder named A.J. Farley. Joining other Civil Rights leaders, his head was fractured in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” The list of those who directly came from the church and changed our country goes on and on.

The Brown Chapel sits on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, as the historical monument to the Civil Rights Movement, but how amazing it seems to me that most have never heard of the man who built it. Still, this is just another way the church played a major role in making the American dream come true for everyone, even the unknown souls.

Today the churches in African American communities continue to play its role in changing our society. The church is actively seeking to improve the urban communities and provide safe havens for Black children. They take on the issues of gang violence in the same way they ended slavery, with constant hope and amazing faith.

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

I see c00ns like @Napoleon gonna avoid this thread like the plague (even though he's most likely a cac)

I'mma keep educating though

http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/black-church/

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
For more than 100 years, blacks had struggled against racial inequality, racial violence and social injustice. By the mid-1950s, resistance coalesced into concrete plans for action, spurred in part by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. In September 1955, a photo of Till's mutilated and battered body lying in an open casket aroused anger and deep revulsion among blacks and whites, both in the North and South. Three months after his death, a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. She was arrested and fined. Soon after, ministers and lay leaders gathered to decide on their course of action: a boycott of the Montgomery buses. They also decided to form an association, the Montgomery Improvement Association, and chose as their spokesman the newly appointed 26-year-old minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King Jr. The son and grandson of ministers, King had grown up in his father's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. In his first speech he clearly defined the religious and moral dimensions of the movement:

We are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, then the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong …
King continued as the principal spokesman for the boycott. Behind the scenes, Jo Ann Robinson and E.D. Nixon managed the protest and kept it going. The boycott lasted more than a year. In 1956, a federal ruling struck down the Montgomery ordinance; the Supreme Court of the United States later affirmed this decision.

Two years later, King and other black ministers formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with the goal of organizing anti-segregation efforts in other communities in the South. Its members included Montgomery minister Ralph Abernathy; Andrew Young, a Congregationalist minister from New Orleans; James Lawson from the United Methodist Church; and Wyatt T. Walker, a Baptist. Civil rights activist Ella Baker served as the group's executive secretary; King was elected president and declared that the goal of the movement was "to save the soul of the nation." As historian Albert Robateau has observed, "The civil rights movement became a religious crusade."

As with emancipation, the civil rights crusade was sustained by the Exodus story. As congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis observes: "Slavery was our Egypt, segregation was our Egypt, discrimination was our Egypt, and so during the height of the civil rights movement it was not unusual for people to be singing, 'Go down Moses way on down in Egypt land and tell Pharaoh to let my people go.'"

Churches played a pivotal role in protests. In crowded basements and cramped offices, plans were made, strategies formulated, people assembled. Decades of providing social services now paid off in organized political protest. Marches took on the characteristics of religious services, with prayers, short sermons and songs. But not all churches joined the civil rights movement. As historian Barbara Savage has shown, most pastors and congregations were reluctant to defy the status quo. J.H. Jackson, the conservative leader of the venerable National Baptist Convention and pastor of Chicago's Olivet Baptist Church, was staunchly opposed to King's tactics as he affirmed the rule of law. Like Thurgood Marshall and the leadership of the NAACP, he believed that civil disobedience, mass protests and any other efforts that put African Americans in conflict with the powers that be would compromise their efforts toward equality via the courts. Like Booker T. Washington, he was convinced that it was the responsibility of black people to prove their economic value and social worth to the dominant society by modeling morality, entrepreneurialism and citizenship. Tensions finally split the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., the largest historic black denomination, when King and others broke off to form the Progressive Baptist Convention.

But not all those prepared to fight for civil rights subscribed to King's strategy of nonviolence. King himself seemed reluctant to risk arrest. But under pressure, he participated in a march in Birmingham that he knew would land him in jail. A group of white ministers sent a letter criticizing his actions. King replied with "Letter From Birmingham Jail," a profound reflection upon Christianity and the imperative for social justice and social change. King's letter was smuggled out of jail and widely published.

The White House advised King not to proceed with plans for a March on Washington, but on Aug. 28, 1963 -- eight years to the day after the death of Emmett Till -- 200,000 civil rights activists, including preachers, rabbis, nuns, farmers, lawyers, store clerks and students, descended on the Washington Mall to hear King deliver the most famous speech of the 20th century, "I Have a Dream." Drawing upon the language and cadence of Scripture, King linked biblical precepts to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and called upon the nation to honor the commitment of the Founding Fathers to social justice and liberty for all.

The afterglow that enveloped the march was quickly shattered when four little girls attending Sunday school were killed by a bomb that exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on Sept. 15, 1963. The following year President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But King himself faced growing criticism. Malcolm X, fiery spokesman for the Nation of Islam, mocked his nonviolent approach. Stokely Carmichael and others issued calls for "Black Power." King denounced the Vietnam War and began to organize the Poor People's Campaign. His assassination on April 4, 1968, signaled the end of the apex of the civil rights movement.

 

[BrothaZay]

Or maybe we just think for ourselves..

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

Or maybe we just think for ourselves..

MLK died so you could freely post about fukking trannies on a message board like the degenerate you are.

Respect those who put their lives on the line so you have the freedom to c00n

 

[BrothaZay]

MLK died so you could freely post about fukking trannies on a message board like the degenerate you are.

Respect those who put their lives on the line so you have the freedom to c00n

Who died so you can show ur bare ass cheeks on cam to minors?

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

 

[Congressman Ray Syst Jr.]

Who died so you can show ur bare ass cheeks on cam to minors?

Just to be fair, minors see ass cheeks everyday, you're allowed to show ass on public cable before 10pm now

I've seen your history of lust for transexuals. You need to be the main one taking your ass into someones church young man

 

[BrothaZay]

Just to be fair, minors see ass cheeks everyday, you're allowed to show ass on public cable before 10pm now

I've seen your history of lust for transexuals. You need to be the main one taking your ass into someones church young man

Yes because people in church dont fucc trannys, and Pastors dont fucc boys

Shut up fakkit, dont quote me again bytch

@Buckeye Fever @Gator Reloaded do me a favor and get dis nikka fo i lose my temper

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

Who died so you can show ur bare ass cheeks on cam to minors?

Now it would be best for you to go in peace demon, before I have @colicolicoli go into the mod forum of deleted threads and send me a cached version of that epic exposal of you getting your hand caught in the tranny jar.

Let the adults talk

 

[BrothaZay]

U mean the thread where you posed as a tranny and try to get me to send u dicc pics on ubc

 

[MikelArteta]

@montpelier

 

[Just like bruddas]

Who died so you can show ur bare ass cheeks on cam to minors?

 

[Chris.B]

why would any black militant speak English? That's my biggest problem