So you want to separate religion from state? You don't think religion has anything to say about everyday life? I suppose you label simple support of the bare minimum of Divinely-mandated decency as "political?"
I know many Black chrstians too--I have all my life. And they behave one way and vote another, and any time one enters politics he seems to automatically become a screaming red on every issue across the board (or else is labeled an "uncle tom").
Blacks have been out to lunch for sixty or more years on issues of morality other than those that directly affect issues of race and poverty. Their silence has allowed common decency to be derided as "white" by the Left. They have also benefited from a fanatical Left that hates and attacks "redneck" chrstians but which celebrates Black chrstians as if they were not chrstians at all but members of some other religion being persecuted by chrstians.
My spelling of the word "chrstian" is due to a religious scruple on my part. If you would rather see the "X" just let me know.
Much of what you say about the black political situation is, of course true. I speak, however, of only a remnant of black Christians. Regardless to how small. God always has his faithful remnant, in Old Testament Israel - see Hebrews 11 - and Christianity. In universalist Christianity, a faithful remnant irrespective of their race, nationality, or color.
I understand that unfortunately, Sunday mornings are the most segregated days of the week in America. But I don’t think that’s the will of God at all; in the early church, Paul spent a great deal of effort in his epistles trying to get Gentiles and converted Jews to put their differences aside and worship together as one Church.
During the Asuza Street Revival in 1917, which was more-or-less the birth of the modern Pentecostal movement, black and whites came together and worshiped and sang in one church. This during some of the worst days of segregation. The liberal LA Times was indignant and wrote slanderous articles decrying this “inappropriate” integration of negroes and whites.
William J Seymour, leader of the movement, was the son former slaves and is said to have gone to Bible schools, but sat outside the windows to listen to the messages because as an African American, he was not allowed in. But he did not have any hatred or ill will, and even hugged and prayed for other white students as they left the building. Today’s race-baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have a lot to learn from Seymour!
As per what I wrote, I don’t know anything about the church in Charleston—what they taught or believed, etc. I just see great hypocrisy in the left that decries this someone shooting people at a church but has been entering churches and businesses and trying to force Christians to abandon their beliefs and cater to and perform homosexual weddings.