Written by Kirsten West Savali on
January 17, 2012
Let me preface this article by unequivocally
stating that this is not an attack on Christians. To paraphrase Dr. Maya
Angelou, “people will forget what you said, but they never forget how you made
them feel.” So, it is only in the spirit of intellectual debate and historical
examination — not Jesus bashing — that I ask the following question:
Are Black Christians the new
“house Negros?”
After re-listening to ancestor
Malcolm X’s (El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) electric and enlightening message “The
House Negro and The Field Negro” (watch below) and having various discussions
on the topic, I have become increasingly convinced that the answer to that
question is yes. The only differentiating detail is that the new house does not
belong to the plantation owner but the opulent “House of the Lord.”
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