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Finished Chapter 12. Just because your family has voted for a particular political party for years does not mean you should vote for them. Political parties are not religious faiths. They do not deserve your blind allegiance. When political parties have blind allegiance, they no longer have to earn your vote. As Christians, we should have more discernment.

Finished Chapter 11. Studies over the past couple of decades prove what the Bible said millennia ago: that family stability is economic and morally beneficial. Single mothers (or fathers) try their best, but two-parent households are just better overall. Why getting help is ok, work is more sustainable and healthy.

Finished Chapter 10. A person's loyalty should not be towards a political party. A person should have their faith in God. Blind loyalty in a political party is wrong and idolatrous. You can choose to vote for a political party, but that shouldn't mean that you have to agree with 100% of the things they say or do.

Finished Chapter 9. Read that major American cities have been voting primarily Democrat for about 60 years. Yet, despite the promises the Democrats have made, no significant advancement has been made towards the Black community. However, the family structure, culture, economic, and educational systems have deteriorated.

Finished Chapter 8. The myth of the party switch. Through evolving policies, Democrats gained the Black vote, while Republicans took the disenfranchised southern Democrats. The Republicans and southern Democrats agreed on several policies like federalism and economic policy. What changed were incentives, alliances, and power calculations.

Finished Chapter 7. The destruction of "Black Wall Street" was damaging to the Black community on several fronts. It took a thriving, successful community away and left a gaping hole of depression in its wake. Democrats saw that a successful Black community was possible and made it its duty to keep the Black community pacified by giving them government handouts.

Finished Chapter 6. This chapter centers on the words of Harry Belafonte and how he felt about the political shift of the Black community. He voiced his concerns multiple times about how the community was trading political influence for symbolic inclusion. Harry quoted MLK as saying, “I fear I have integrated my people into a burning house.”

Finished Chapter 5. The Democrats focused on government assistance that disproportionately affected Black families. A downside to the assistance was that male figures in the home would negatively affect the approval rate, leading to single-family homes on government assistance. The Moynihan Report tried to warn of impeding harm to the Black nuclear family, but the warnings were ignored.

Finished Chapter 4. Democrats passed many Jim Crow laws over the years they dominated the South. However, Republicans were able to enact several civil-rights laws during the late-1950s and 1960s.
Martin Luther King Jr was arrested in Georgia and President Eisenhower and VP Nixon did not intervene, but Kennedy did. This act by Kennedy shifted Black emotion towards Democrats.

Finished Chapter 3. After the Civil War, Reconstruction began to rebuild the South and strengthen Black political power. Many former slaves now held political offices in local and federal levels. However, the election of 1876 messed up in such a way that Republicans and Democrats made a compromise: Republicans gain the Presidency, and federal troops abandon the South. This let Democrats take full control of the South

Finished Chapter 2. The South seceded, and protecting slavery was the reason why. The Union fought to preserve the country then turned to outright ending slavery once and for all. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to do just that. When the South surrendered, slaves everywhere in the US officially became free. Now the question was, what to do with the newly freed slaves?

Finished Chapter 1. Read about the beginning of the US and how it was shaped by those with deep religious feelings. From the very beginning, slavery was a fact of life. Even some Black men owned Black slaves. However, not everyone was for it. The Founding Fathers were split on slavery, but it was not a major issue. When Lincoln was elected, the South felt it had lost all political influence and succeeded.