Would you have been proud to be a Christian?
             Depending on the color of your skin, you may not have
             been. For this reason, true Christians should
             re-evaluate their religious institutions. In the end
             many people may find out that what they have been
             worshiping fails to represent their beliefs correctly.
             Christianity has influenced many laws and popular
             views. Likewise, Christianity had also been influenced
             by the nation's popular view on a subject.
             Christianity has been and is the basis for our
             societies' morality. After all, Christianity has done
             so much for us throughout time. There were many
             battles fought and overcome in the name of
             Christianity. One particular battle was the abolition
             of segregation. With respect to segregation, the
             Church has conformed to the popular views of the
             nation at the time when segregation was legal.
             According to William R. Jones, author of a series of
             books about the Black religious experience, a trait of
             the Church is to appeal to a two-category system, one
             that supports the split of mankind into an "in" group
             and an "out" group (1). With this in mind, how is it
             that we can be proud to be true Christians? We should
             not be proud to represent an institution that aided
             injustices. To represent such an institution is just
             as wrong as the act of segregation itself.
             Why is it that the Church did not decide to aide in
             the abolition of segregation? The Church is to be a
             direct reflection of the Lord, who knows all. The
             answer may be cause many of the respectable people in
             the Church were either for segregation, held a neutral
             opinion, or they felt as if it would be overcome with
             time. The Church seemed unable to differentiate
             between right and wrong, and when it learned what was
             right it was to frightened to help (Grier, Cobbs 157).
             For instance, many Blacks during segregation did not
             expect suc...