Richard Wright stated as much in the A.M.E. Christian Recorder in 1925 when he called for “inter-racial cooperation.” For Wright, the most important duty of “American Christianity” was “Race Adjustment, on a basis of the teaching of Jesus Christ.” Rather than helping their fellow humans, the members of the white churches were divided into “those who honestly believed that the church had to do with the ‘spiritual,’ and who did not believe that the ‘social’ should occupy their minds.”
Hard not to read modern controversies into this
