An Excerpt looking at the role of Black Women in religion... Black Women examine your history starting from the coast of Africa all the way to modern day America?.. From the Slave Ship to the Auction Block at Annapolis, to the Cotton Fields, to birthing Mulato children for your Slave owners to the Big House Slave Quarters, to the Medical Labs being poked and prodded in the name of Sarah Bartman, to the Underground Railroad, to the End of Slavery. Then on to Back of the Bus in the racist Confederate South under Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement, to the burning down of your homes and Churches by KKK nightriders and finally on to the Projects and Inner Cities that make up your America. Then reflect on your counterparts left in Africa that would later be part of racism and apartheid in their own country... It is clearly evident to me that your group, which makes one of the most devout and faith based demographs in American Society is blessed and highly favored by God... Notice my Sarcasm.. Hyacinth Thrash and her sister tithed 20% of their income to Peoples Temple. Thousands of dollars in property sales, Social Security, disability, and welfare benefits from Temple members were funneled into the church’s empire. Despite being elderly and infirm, Thrash and her sister followed Jones from Indiana to Ukiah, San Francisco, and Guyana before Thrash became disgruntled with the divide between Jones’ rhetoric of racial equality and the white-people-first reality of church leadership, though she nonetheless chose to remain. Unpacking why so many black women died in Jonestown requires taking a critical look back at the racial underbelly of the Jonestown age. It demands confronting hard truths about the dangerously gendered seductions of organized religion; particularly given the global appeal that 24/7 prayer movements and charismatic Pentecostalism have for women of color.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:34:31 +0000
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