It seems that the people with money (rich, white men) are once again taking advantage of African-Americans. The right-wing hate preachers like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) are finding a welcoming audience in black ministers and their churches. Why would that be? Is it because, like the GOP, those ministers find it easer to blame others and use redirection to cover up their own failures than own up to them? Is it easier to say the Gays are co-opting the equal rights movement to the detriment of blacks than it is to explain why the movement has stagnated?
What exactly have the churches done lately to progress civil rights and the quality of life of African-Americans? Not much I’d have to say. Where have they been when it comes to fighting for their members? Not since Martin Luther King Jr., has there been a real unifying voice for blacks. Jesse Jackson has tried but the right-wing smear machine has made him a caricature.
What has happened is manipulation by whites. The Bush administration is all too happy to use money to recruit black ministers. Once again buying their slaves but just not so openly.
It seems so odd to me that a people can be used over and over again by the same evil class of whites. Torn from their homeland and enslaved in the US they were forced to convert to Christianity as one of many tools to control them. Symbolic acts of congress and the courts have done little to really change the attitudes of the racists.