Immaculate Conception or Civil Society ?

[Rakesh Bhandari]

> 
> Whatever one thinks of Black religiosity in the US, it is the Black
> churches that provided the organizational resources and infrastructure for
> the civil rights movement.  Without that organizational structure, provided
> by entities that are by my standards reactionary, we would still have legal
> apartheid in the US.

Never been comfortable with idiomatic expressions. But in terms of the
relation of the Black Church to the civil rights movement, you got the
tail wagging the dog, as shown incisively by Adolph Reed, Jr. in The Jesse
Jackson Phenomenon. Yale University Press, 1986.
Best,
Rakesh