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There were those who argued that the Black Church was an example of Karl Marx’s famous indictment of religion as “the opium of the people” because it gave to the oppressed false comfort and hope, obscuring the causes of their oppression and reducing their urge to overturn that oppression. Political activists - including Malcolm X, of course, but especially the Black Panther Party in the latter half of the 1960s - have debated whether the role of the Black embrace of Christianity under slavery was a positive or negative force. Excerpted from “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song” by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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