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Part II God and Church3 Racial Stigma and Southern Baptist Public Discourse in the Twentieth Century
Pamela D. Jones
RESEARCH LEVEL 1
Editors’ Introduction
Some of the best pieces of writing start from a very simple question: How can Christians committed to the Golden Rule support slavery? No one would say that they would like to be treated as a slave. In this powerful piece of historical analysis, the author starts with this question. The answer, this author explains, is that assumptions about the inferiority of African Americans created a culture where the Golden Rule is evaded. She then develops a substantial case study. The author takes the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and divides the history into three periods: the Jim Crow Era, post the 1954 Brown decision, and the 1995 Apology. She argues that African Americans are so traumatized by the racism of the denomination that the “change of heart” may not be sufficient to heal African Americans’ mistrust and skepticism toward the denomination as racist.