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01/29/2008: "Racial divide defines view of opportunity"
Two-thirds of African-Americans believe blacks face discrimination when applying for a job or buying or renting a house, yet more than half also agree . and nearly three-quarters of whites believe . that "blacks who have not gotten ahead in life are mainly responsible for their own situation." Blacks believe they face discrimination, yet the individual African-American is to blame for his or her failure to make it?
As exemplified by the civil rights movement and its minister leader King, there runs through African-American religious history a conviction that God stands with the dispossessed against the scourge of dehumanizing racism. Yet those who follow black church trends today will tell you that this prophetic tradition is giving way to something decidedly less idealistic: a prosperity gospel holding that God blesses individual believers with economic advancement.
[ Let's blame each other until we're all dead. ]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080121/cm_usatoday/whychristiansshouldseekmlksdream