Even in the church, I understand, there is segregation… I am a Hindu. During all the period since then you have lived in a Christian nation in which you are segregated, lynched, and burned. Some seventy years or more ago you were freed by a man who was not a professing Christian, but was rather the spearhead of certain political, social and economic forces, the significance of which he himself did not understand. Christian ministers, quoting the Christian apostle Paul, gave the sanction of religion to the system of slavery. The men who brought the slaves were Christians. The name of one of the famous British slave ships was ‘Jesus’. The people who dealt in the slave traffic were Christians. “More than three hundred years ago your forefathers were taken from the western coast of Africa as slaves.
Thurman begins the book with a question given to him by a Hindu. Book Review of Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited
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