Trinity United Church of Christ

Trinity United Church of Christ

"We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community."

What bothers me most about this is that sermon you keep hearing on tv has been preached all over the US at other churches some black, some white. There is nothing wrong with having an Afrocentric message in the Gospel. The good Christian folks preached freedom from sin while the beat and mamed us, raped our women and decimated our sense of community, and we have the audacity to preach an Afrocentric gospel? Maybe ya'll forgot, but those pages were left out of the slave Sunday School Manual. Blacks were the original victims of identity theft. Stolen and replaced with a form of Godliness denying the power thereof, so why exactly is it wrong to teach a Afrocentric gospel, again?

Oh, yeah, for all you "knee grows" that believe the same thing, but won't stand up. This won't stop with Rev. Wright.

Put this in you spirit...

W.E.B Dubois co-wrote “The Negro In The South” along with Booker T. Washington which was published in 1907 . In the chapter entitled, “Religion In The South” he states,

” If my own city of Atlanta had offered it to-day the choice between 500 Negro college graduates–forceful, busy, ambitious men of property and self-respect, and 500 black cringing vagrants and criminals, the popular vote in favor of the criminals would be simply overwhelming. Why? because they want Negro crime? No, not that they fear Negro crime less, but that they fear Negro ambition and success more. They can deal with crime by chain-gang and lynch law, or at least they think they can, but the South can conceive neither machinery nor place for the educated, self-reliant, self-assertive black man.”