Race and the institutional Church (Reading Programs in Theology)

The bewildered Christian, viewing the relatively recent and rapid progress of the American Negro, may ask: \u27\u27What more does the Negro want? The black\u27s reply to that question is likely to be, What have you got? Such a reply indicates the fact that a revolution becomes more demanding as the gap is narrowed. But the gap has been narrowed only in certain respects. The Negro has made gains in having but not in belonging. In fact, things seem worse in the latter area. In view of all this, the great mass of Christians is confused and inert