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Since then, African -American churches have continued to support faith and struggle for civil rights across the country and in Chicago.
The origins of the Black Church in America could possibly be due to the first experiences of the Africans in this country on plantations.
In black preachers used in black, so -called “slave bibs”, which differ from those that they used in their own churches. One of three remaining copies belongs to Fisk University. It emphasizes passages that lead to servants being obedient. Stories like Moses that lead the Israelite slaves to freedom were removed.
Therefore, the enslaves often met in their quarters to sing and pray and discuss ideas for their collective well.
Dr. Jemar Tisby, professor and author of “The Color of Compromise,” says one of the first things that Blacks did after the civil war, is formed by her own communities.
“The black church itself is resistance to racism,” he said. “It was not about deep theological differences to white Christians. It was because they did not want to be treated as a citizen of the second class in the household of God, and the only way that could happen was to form their own churches. “
But before the civil war, the country began the effects of the political power of the Black Church.
Alvin Tilley teaches political science at Northwestern University and heads her Center for Studies of Diversity and Democracy.
“The earliest kind of proof for this would have been what we call the” federal period of the republic “, right after the war of 1812, in which they are the denomination of the African Methodists -Episcopal Church in I -Glaube, the 1790s, said Tilley , Tilley, Tilley, Tilley.
Reverend Dr. Otis Moss III leads the municipality of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago. You are known to play an energetic role in solving the problems with which blacks are confronted, beyond the church building. In the early 2000s, Trinity was bustling during the election of President Barack Obama, who was a member of Trinity United Church of Christ at the time. Parts of a sermon, which was preached by the pastor at the time, criticized Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright about its treatment on September 11th and forced a headlining and forced a public distance between the church and the former president.
“The role of the black church tradition is to tell the power of truth,” Aid. “Jesus always spoke to those who were in power and demanded that they treat and recognize those who were most marginalized in the community, and we follow this tradition.”
In the 50s and 60s, Clack Church served as the center of security, services and strategy.
“We see historically black churches that are literally the physical sites for the organization. When they had no other place when they could meet, they were able to meet in a black church, ”said Tisby.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a master of the interface of politics and pulpit and in 1957 formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after successfully led the Montgomery boycott. a movement born in a church; A movement king says that some white Christians can be more involved.
“We should remember his letter from a prison in Birmingham. He warned the white ones, many Christians, and his frustration was that they were sitting on the side during the civil rights movement that they were not actively involved, ”said Tisby. “Some of them have just supported racist status quo, and they did that because they should give this separation between faith and what they called social justice. … there should certainly be a separation from the church and the state, but that does not mean that there is a separation of faith and politics. “
And politicians know people in these pews. The evidence can be seen in every election season.
“It was a tradition in certain cities in which politicians appear in a church and seek their voters for votes. I think there should be certain parameters, ”said Moss. “One of the things we do here at Trinity, we have set up a community forum in which politicians can come and the community can actually question the upcoming person instead of just using the platform to speak.”
Since church visitors in America fall through denominations, some analysts say that the political power that has once been raised becomes weaker.
“Another problem is the cultural conservatism of the Black Church,” said Tilley. “We have just seen Episcopal Church’s denomination of the African methodists. Their constant refusal to saints of same -sex marriages they know; This reduces public opinion in the same generations you need to get into your pews. “
While the modern Trump government is introducing the first “Beauty Bureau of the White House” to eliminate what it describes as “anti-Christian bias within the federal government”, some concerns have some concerns that religion is being used to separate the Americans .
“Historically, the Black Church has not interpreted trust in politics. They wanted an expansion in democracy and the expansion of civil rights, and they understood that as part of their faith as the image of God with all kinds of people, the same dignity was made, ”said Tisby.
Moss says that the topics that overcome politics will always be part of the Black Church’s focus.
“No matter who is in power, there will be people who are courted. No matter who is in power, there will be people who have psychological challenges. Regardless of who is in power, we have to make sure that our children can thrive, that we interfere with a mass liability system and look at the idea of economic equality, ”he said. “This is not a democrat or a republican topic, that is a human flowering topic, and that is exactly what the Church should speak.”
