Denmark Vesey

And if you look at particularly in the US context, virtually every individual who has stood up and fought against oppression or marginalization or racism, has been a church individual, you know, somebody from the church.

And this, you're talking about whether, you know, Denmark Vesey or Nat Turner or Frederick Douglass or, you know, even Marcus Gardi, you know, came from a religious background.

And then obviously you've got the modern civil rights movement and you've got the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King and the other individuals connected to that.

So African people have been able despite the attempts of individuals to brainwash them to be able to look at the scriptures and see something in them particularly in the life of Jesus Christ that speaks to freedom you know and they had the ability the where we fall to actually I would say a hermeneutic rate to interpret scripture in a particular way, which suggests that, you know, God is on the side of the oppressed.

We could go to slavery.

One of the first great Black liberation movements to ever happen was the ending of slavery it was it was black women using any piece of authority that they could find and uh and being subversive on a daily basis right so of course we learn about denmark bessie and we learn about you know nat turner we learn about these huge rebellions and we get a little bit of like the deep spiritual work when we hear about harriet tubman

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But we don't talk enough about the one the reason why they had to start separating the kitchen from the actual house is because enslaved women and these black women were intentionally blowing the house up, setting the house on fire.