is it time for black people to rethink their relationship with religion ?
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Recent scholarship on Black Lives Matter has focused on the political, economic, intellectual, and theological context/s out of which the movement arises, but there has been little engagement with the movement from the perspective of philosophy of religion or history of religions. Phenomenologically, Black life in the United States is relegated to the unthought experience and habitual reenactment of tying one's shoes. But Black people are not shoes in need of tying, so Black people live impossible lives in the United States.
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During his powerful eulogy for Clementa Pinckney, the former South Carolina senator and beloved reverend of Emmanuel A.M.E. Church who was tragically murdered in a vicious mass shooting in 2015, Former President Barack Obama spoke with profound respect for his embodiment of spiritual principles.
“We are here today to remember a man of God who lived by faith — A man who believed in things not seen,” Obama declared. “Blinded by hatred, the alleged killer failed to understand what Reverend Pinckney so clearly understood: The power of God’s grace.”
While the gunman, then 21-year-old Dylann Roof, may not have factored the depth of his victims’ beliefs, he did proclaim that his intentions were grounded in the same religious faith. As a result, when Roof intentionally targeted the prominent Black church in hopes of inciting a race war, his killing took on a more dynamic context that personifies the modern paradox of religion.