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To: Sub-Driver

Black culture is rife with these churches.

Church in black culture occupies a different place than in most of what can be called white culture.

The preacher is now the rouser of old. The keeper of the legacy in the past who kept the history alive in a culture of no written word.


59 posted on 03/20/2008 5:56:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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To: wardaddy

“The keeper of the legacy in the past who kept the history alive in a culture of no written word.”

Your assertion — the black church as the keeper of black history — perhaps supplies us with a cogent explanation for the histrionics of pastors such as reverend Wright, namely, to impress this history on their congregations: in the most forceful, powerful, and unforgettable terms.

Very interesting.

Much better than Obama’s ‘it’s a black thing’ ‘you wouldn’t understand’ explaination.


87 posted on 03/20/2008 6:47:38 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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