It is hard to imagine an organized social life amongst the Negroes without the role of the church and religion. In the New World there was a considered demand for slaves. What does this mean? People of color continue to be unduly slave in a form of incarcerated, racial, inconsistencies in the justice system, voting rights, housing, education and equal right to employment. How has it effected the environment and culture? What type of toll did it have on the community and church then and now? What role did the church have in helping rebuild social cohesion in the 21st century? We desire to live in a world full of love, joy, hope, redemption, and peace, but at the same time it is often full of pain, sorrow, destruction, despair, and heartache. What is injustice? Is it turning a blind eye to people next to you that are hurt or in need of help? Is injustice not standing up for what you believe in? Our world is full of people that do unjust actions every day. Some people may know about it and think it’s not their place to say something about it or stick up for another person. Others may simply turn a blind eye to it seeing that they are not willing to evoke a change against it. Our world and our people have shifted and developed bringing some injustices to light. Slavery still exist. …show more content…
Even in the Bible days enslaved people were a way of funds for the upper class. “And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death” (Exodus 21:16). During the “Middle passage,” the Negroes were packed spoon-fashion in the slave ships, were no regard was shown for sex or age difference” (Frazier, Franklin, & Lincoln, 1963, p. 10). In fact, there could be no family ties. The Negroes were stripped of any social culture and