Choices Quote by Michael Emerson

“In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."” quote by Michael Emerson — Download Open image

“In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."”

Michael Emerson

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And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial church, she sits in her car and she listens to gospel music to get her fill, and she goes into an interracial church where they don't do gospel music, and she's ready to accept the other…

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There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks…

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