Slavery in Black and White Study Guide Documentary

Later generations of white Christians and churches rarely corrected its support of slavery and racism and addressed the damage caused. They also ignored the continuing impact of the structural and systemic effects of slavery and racism. Martin Luther King, Jr. was very troubled by the resistance and apathy he encountered by white Christians. Some chose to issue an apology, not repent and repair what was done. The tendency to soft peddle will be one of many reasons successive generations of white Christians support things like Jim Crow segregation, convict leasing and the prison industrial complex.