Did anyone catch the interview of two black ministers on NPR this week?

[Maddy McCall]

I wish I could find the transcript, and if anyone has a few minutes to help me look for it, I'd be most grateful. I'm not very good at navigating the NPR website.

NPR did a feature on Thursday (I think it was Thursday) on this...

Black "progressive" preachers are now taking hand-outs from the Bush administration, to run "programs" in their churches. The NPR feature painted the minister of a church who refused Bush handouts as "a sixties-type liberal." "Progressive, cutting-edge" black ministers, according to the NPR correspondent, are those that demand personal responsibility from their congregation (yet they take Bush hand-outs).

The minister who refused Bush handouts criticized the other minister in his hometown who does accept Bush handouts as "unable to speak with a bone in his mouth. You give a dog a bone, and he's going to chew on it, and that keeps him from saying what he needs to say."

The NPR correspondent said that the Republican party has no hope of conventing all black voters to Democrats, but just to peel enough away to win elections. In Ohio, over 16% of black voters supported Bush, which gave him the Ohio victory, according to NPR.

It was a really interesting interview with the two pastors.

Now, as far as white churches go, I can tell you for a fact that they are every bit as guilty of preaching Republican virtues from the pulpit as black churches are of preaching Democratic virtues. Yet it's always whites who complain that black churches are "too political."

[mzteris]

1. Conservative Black Clergy Make Waves from Pulpit

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5328555

Religion
Conservative Black Clergy Make Waves from Pulpit
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

All Things Considered, April 6, 2006 · Black churches, often a bastion of groups calling for change and reform, have seen the recent rise of a few prominent conservative black pastors. In many cases, their work has energized, and divided, their congregation -- and the split has spilled over into politics.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Thank you, mzteris!

:hi:

Did you listen to it?

What did you think?