I found it difficult to understand exactly what Dr. Felder was talking about in his lecture. Maybe this is because I have never been a religious person myself, so I found it hard to relate to what he was saying. However, one thing that I do remember from the lecture was the idea that we have always just accepted that the people in the Bible were white. This is because we were brought up through slavery in predominantly white areas, and whites would have no reason to want to believe that the people of the Bible were of any color. This would disprove all their reasoning for sustaining the institution of slavery. Although I didn't find myself to be very interested in this lecture, due to my lack of religious beliefs, I managed to learn a lesson from it. I think Dr. Felder was ultimately trying to say that we should not just blindly accept things as they are told to us, but we should instead do our own research and look deeper into the issue to try and figure things out ourselves. Throughout history, black people have been told things that have either been portions of the truth or things that have held no truth. Even today, racism still lives in our communities, and those lies are not completely dead. It is important that we remember that we must find our own truths.
Erika Meijer
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