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This hostility has caused untold multi-generational psychological & emotional trauma.

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Some states, like Colorado and Washington, are enjoying major profits from recent legalization of those same exact drugs.ДЇrom the time that Africans stepped foot on the docks of Jamestown in 1617 to evangelical Christians voting for a racist presidential candidate in 2016, weвЂ™ve found ourselves as the object of inexplicable prejudice and hostility based on our skin color alone. ItвЂ™s вЂњenforcementвЂќ resulted in the over-policing of African American communities and landed manyВ in jail with mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenses. It was simply reconstituted as the racially motivated вЂњWar on DrugsвЂќ of the 1970s, which was more of a war on black people. Martin Luther, Jr., who crisscrossed the country to oppose economic and political disenfranchisement, this legal form of segregation collapsed in the 1960s.Д«ut, the oppression of the African-American did not end in the 60вЂ™s. Thanks to the herculean efforts of civil rights leaders like Dr. Though it led to a brief reconstruction period where the newly freed slaves thrived economically and socially, the institution of racism was reintroduced in the form of Black Codes & Jim Crow in the South while de facto segregation occurred in the North.

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The institution of slavery lasted over 250 years and did not end until President Abraham Lincoln signed an executive order, known as the Emancipation of Proclamation, to free the enslaved blacks.

It resulted in our ancestors being stripped of their culture, heritage, and native language then getting sequestered to live dehumanized existences on the plantations of the southern states. The transatlantic slave trade ended in the early 19th century, but not before millions of Africans were imported and sold as prized commodities. Sadly, many died on the long voyage to the States, and those who survived were sold to the highest bidder on the shipyards of Virginia. The African-American history of oppression in the United States began in the 17th Century when West Africans of a noble lineage were chained and packed onto ships against their wills by White American settlers. With that, here are 3 reasons (with more forthcoming) why we need to stop verbally abusing the Black Church. Sadly, many black leaders are ignorant of the black churchвЂ™sВ enduring history and they prey on the suspicions of some blacks by spoon-feeding them misinformation.

Has she failed our inner city communities?.

Have her efforts to foster change in urban areas been futile?.

Polight, have levied the same accusations. Others from the Black Consciousness movement, as well as public figures like David Banner and Bro. He challenged her вЂњotherworldlyвЂќ doctrine of hope and what he perceived to be her lack commitment to inner city communities.

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Umar Johnson, the self-proclaimed Prince of Pan-Africanism, loaded a banana clip full of disparaging remarks and unleashed a vicious tirade on the Black Church. The young upstart railed accusations against the age-old institution. With iPhones in hand, they sneered and laughed at her while he pointed out her flaws and shortcomings. He frequently mocks her in front of others, but her shame became a public spectacle when his accomplices began to record the verbal assault. This wasnвЂ™t the first time his not-so-subtle criticism of her in the past few years has become commonplace. I rolled my eyes in disgust as he raised his voice at her, but deep in my soul, I felt powerless to defend her honor. Grant isВ a pastor at Epiphany Fellowship Church вЂ“ Camden. This article, written by Ernest Grant II, was first published on his site.

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