Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The African American Church

In the media the African American church has two personalities. We are seen as the pillar of our communities and we are seen as jokes. To make my point I have two videos to share with you. The first video is a little boy who is reciting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s  “I have a dream” speech. I don’t know if you remember who Dr. King is but he had the same type of religious clout in the nation as the white Evangelist Billy Graham.  Dr. King one of America's greatest preachers was so influential in this country he now has his own national holiday.  It is the African American church that helped our culture stay together during our bad and good times in the United States of America. On the other side of the coin we have what the Blues Brothers depicted in their movie as the African American church. I can’t blame Hollywood or the media for having this ugly protyal of us because we did have churches that only had shout parties and had no teaching going on. To be fair though, we as a people who have gone through many trails and tribulations have a reason to shout! To outsiders, especially Non-Christians they will never truly understand or be able to accurately retell our story.