Of the Faith of the Fathers

In my own review, I can accept Du Bois outline of the developing of the Negro churches. I understand the need to worship to balance out the extreme injustice of the slavery crimes being committed against people of color. Furthermore, I understand it was easy for the masses to convert to this new way of worshiping that was Christianity -- as Du Bois notes, and I agree, the Negro is a religious and/or spiritual being that has deep roots of emotional nature that clings to the supernatural.

The church has grown to become a powerful force of America history and the Negro church of yesterday stand a testament of endurance for a way out of bondage. I agree with Du Bois passion to show the difference of the South church of its limitations of expressions, in which, preventing the need to face and deal with the reality of injustice to human kind by the actions of slavery crimes. Even to this day there is a degree of that submissive mentally that overshadows the rest of the community. In addition, the North church of its more freedom of creativity and assertiveness also can be found today that reaches out to the community. As I see the whole spectrum of the Negro churches of before and today, I must conclude that any state of environment where there is a means of control by any means necessary to the human spirit, it is a must to cling to a spiritual force to see you thru.

Finally, I do love the way Du Bois passionately develops his essay theme of limitations in a country that had so many provisions to people of color -- that the Negro use that strength and unity as developing a church of great influence to develop their own self worth and economic power leading to standing on their own with assertion. In a moving melody of hope that Du Bois says the Negroes dared to sing on their journey to freedom, I leave the following: