African Americans wound uP in dirTy, backbreaking, unskilled, and lowpaying occupations. These were the least desirable jobs in most industries, but the ones employers felt best suited their workers. More than eight of every ten African American men worked as unskilled laborers in foundries, in the building trades, in meat-packing companies, on the railroads, or as servants, <span>porters.</span>
One is right and one is wrong
The modern American economy traces it is rooted in the quest of European settlers moving to groups for economic gain in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Tim Keller on Dr. King’s rejection of relativism:
When Martin Luther King Jr. confronted racism in the white church in the South, he did not call on Southern churches to become more secular. Read his sermons and “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” and see how he argued. He invoked God’s moral law and the Scripture. He called white Christians to be more true to their own beliefs and to realize what the Bible really teaches. He did not say, “Truth is relative and everyone is free to determine what is right or wrong for them.” If everything is relative, there would have been no incentive for white people in the south to give up their power. Rather, Dr. King invoked the prophet Amos, who said, “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.” The greatest champion of justice in our era knew the antidote to racism was not less Christianity, but a deeper and truer Christianity.
(Reason for God, pp.64-65)
