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The tone of this 1905 resolution was part of a consistent pattern in the SBC’s official resolutions, recommendations, and policies toward African Americans until the mid-twentieth century. Despite the social and political subjugation of American citizens who were denied the right to vote, proper and decent public education, and the daily humane civility accorded to white citizens, the SBC expressed that African Americans needed aid that would encourage self-help and self-respect. Its pattern of thinking, including absolution of responsibility for the consequences of segregation, made it clear that help from the convention to solve the major issues that denied African Americans’ equal humanity and justice would not be forthcoming. Instead, support of segregation formed the normal context for its resolutions, concerns, and calls for law and order to deal with responses to race problems and violence in the twentieth century. With regard to lynching, for example, it wrote in 1906 that although lynchings blunt the conscience, it also is important to condemn the horrible crimes that cause them.²⁴