Washington Post — April 8, 2023
Michael Emerson, professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, said that church racial inclusion efforts suffered under President Donald Trump, who often made incendiary comments about immigrants and Blacks.
Many church leaders faced a dilemma, Emerson said: “Do I repudiate it and risk losing many of my White members who may be the biggest donors and who pay my salary? Or do I say, ‘That’s politics, I’m not going to talk about it,’ and try to just skirt the issue?” Continue reading Embracing the New Resegregationist Gospel in a Chapel Hill NC Church
[NOTE: Kudos to the Post & Timothy Egan. The good news here is that when the Klan faced the Law for real, the law won. But in its bloody heyday, in the 1920s & after, it was repeatedly abetted by the connivance, corruption or cowardice of those charged with upholding it.
