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Oppressors In America Research Paper

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The guilt of nurturing lust for power made Hagar run away from Sara. In this context, I observe, that the powerless concubine became all powerful-she ran away twice from Sara. Her reasons for doing so might be many, most notable being that Hagar was the biological mother of Ishmael, and further the tables turned when Sara asked Abraham to send Hagar away-there is a shift in the power roles. Hagar’s acts of running away from Sara twice helps me perceive Hagar taking over the role of an oppressor from her former role of one being oppressed. To explicate this, as a maid, Hagar was oppressed into forcible sexual relationship with Abram, the same oppressed concubine can be perceived as the oppressor who torments Sara because she is the birthing mother of Abraham’s son and hence looks down upon Sara. …show more content…

To clarify, by this, I mean the “white American Christians” of today that were once colonized by the British rulers and sought freedom to build their own nation have now formed their own groups to target and oppress others, the people of color-in this regard the KKK group that has successfully burned crosses and lynched the African Americans, seeking to further build up the agendas of white Christianity. While reading the article by Dr. Stephen Ray, Jr., the question intrigued me about how the white Christians, for whom the cross should have been the object of liberation, have gone to the path of being the oppressors to the black community? As I observe, the unasked question is: When did, Christianity preach and teach hatred against anyone, calling judgement upon them by enslaving and burning them? I find the question extremely relevant to the theological

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