Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition 13… making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

By the time I was born in 1966 legislated segregation and discrimination of the races had been outlawed in our society. That’s not to say that there still weren’t discriminatory factors in the system set up to hold me back. Though institutionalized discrimination and racism is real, I do not believe this is what’s holding African-Americans from God’s full purpose and destiny for their lives. We must get to the root of racism and discrimination to really get free from the chains that still bind us today. Journey with me as I unpack what I believe has many African-Americans still in chains in the 21st century even though legal race-based slavery and segregation was done away with in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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