"the only denomination that’s basically holding steady is the American Baptist Church, which has gained black souls as it has lost white ones." Suddenly I realize that many folk confuse the colour of the skin for the colour of the soul.
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I prefer W. E. B. Dubois's phrasing, eg " Before each chapter, as now printed, stands a bar of the Sorrow Songs,—some echo of haunting melody from the only American music which welled up from black souls in the dark past." https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm …
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over the current fad for referring to blacks simply as "bodies."
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Theatres don't even have whole bodies as customers. Just butts.
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They also sell popcorn.
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