imo, because blacks vote more by racial bloc and motives and pressure than from their religious affiliation. Also, their churches tend to be politicized and left leaning.
That is
Correll ‘s answer to: Why did black evangelicals not support GWB’s dumb war but so many white evangelical Christian did?
I wonder if
Correll arrives at that opinion about blacks and black churches because he thinks Jesus was a white, right leaning, and would be politically in favor of initiating a war of aggression against a non-white, non-Christian nation for no threat related reason.
Maybe black Americans actually read Jesus’ message in the Bible and take it to heart when judging the necessity for starting wars.
Maybe black evangelical Christians have a deeper level of awareness against war that evolved from their closeness to MLK - who said this:
What about Vietnam?
****My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers.
Key passages from King's most controversial speech, plus the original 1967 recording from Riverside Church in New York City.
www.thirteen.org
**** As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
**** But they ask — and rightly so — what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.