ATLANTA, GA — Last week, we featured a story here on Melanoid Nation that involved the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan being banned from giving speeches in Charleston, S.C. based on the local Black clergymen (in Charleston)’s conjecture that Minister Farrakhan’s message against racism/white supremacy would be too ‘controversial’.
Fortunately, not all Black clergymen feel this way. An interview has been conducted by Rolling Out that features one man by the name of Dr. F. Keith Slaughter. Dr. Slaughter is the Dean of the Morehouse School of Religion on the campus of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. In the interview, he explicitly elaborates on the importance of Farrakhan’s alliance with the Black church.
His (Farrakhan’s) message is consistent with the original and authentic message of liberation that began the Black church in the U.S. We must be reminded that the Black church began as a resistance movement to counterbalance the impact of the racist Christian church, which was/is rooted in White supremacy.
….There are many Black “so-called” leaders whose messages counter the message of Farrakhan … how about Dr. Ben Carson, for instance? I believe we are at a point in our history as an oppressed people whereby we can no longer allow space for “false divisions” based on social constructions to determine whether we support each other or no.
As a Black clergyman himself, Dr. F. Keith Slaughter’s outspokenness on this topic breathes new life into what some Black churches have contrived to be a “controversy”. He sheds light on the outlandishness of certain Black churches’ refusal to be remotely involved with anything that will enlighten–and embolden–their Melanoid members to be Black-first. Not only is there room for Minister Farrakhan in the Black Church, there’s also room in Black Society for Melanoid people who will unapologetically speak truth to power, such as Dr. F. Keith Slaughter.
Here are video clips which show Minister Farrakhan’s year-long travels to various churches around the country, campaigning for the Justice Or Else! movement.
MLK jr once said in one of his later speeches that too many black preachers spend too much time talking about white robes when their congregation is trying to figure out how to buy suits and dresses. In other words, he basically said that preachers spend too much time talking about heaven when in the present world blacks aren’t able to live comfortably. That message is even more relevant today, since the black church has completely abandoned any form of activism and has done little to educate or empower the black masses.
It is about time. the majority of these christian leaders basically are nothing but a bunch of scared,racial apologists for white supremacy. I give this brother in atlanta much respect for allowing farrakahan to speak at his church.even though i am not religious,i do want us a african,black,melanoid to finally put aside the differences and take out this nonsense called white-anglo/saxon supremacy by any means necessary.
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