I want to take this moment to welcome everyone to Trinity United Church of christ in chicago illinois. We are a church that believes that we are called to be in the heart of this community ever seeking the communities hard and our motto is that we are unashamedly black and christian. We dont think theres any contradiction between routing your self and your culture and also celebrating the christ with whom we serve. We are delighted that you are here for our booknotes. We had a wonderful experience here today. To Worship Services with a magnificent preacher to my left. And none other than the reverend doctor Rafael Warnock who is senator Rafael Warnock, who is the first africanamerican senator from the state of georgia. He has two publications, one being a way out of no way which is a memoir of his experience from savannah all the way to the senate, and a wonderful Childrens Book. He read to a small group of children immediately following the Worship Service today. We recorded that read
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Connections was a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. In this discussion, i am going to talk too much about men but, males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons as we can see. Let us see if my little thing works. Let us try that again. So, there are a host of characters. I will not talk about all of them. There are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One, it says Indigenous Community organizations. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations. Because it is controlled by the people at the very lowest level. At the ground level. I dont mean that in terms of status but at the ground level. And therefore, you can see that it creates its own organic leadership. A leadership that belongs to its own community. And we will talk about that a little more, these terms, ecclesial politics. National personalities. One of the things that you will see is that black clergy