Howard Thurman's 'Jesus And The Disinherited'

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The assigned textbook for this writing is entitled “Jesus and the Disinherited,” by Howard Thurman. The assignment this week is to read Chapter 4, entitled “Hate,” of the textbook, and write a 1-page reaction paper to the reading assignment.
Reflecting on this chapter, Thurman articulately talks about hate, as it identifies with the disinherited (Thurman’s reference to Black people of his day). The entire chapter is filled with excellent points. However, this paper will only discuss a couple. The first is that hatred is used defensively as a tool for protection. Thurman states, “hatred becomes a device by which an individual seeks to protect himself against moral disintegration. He does to other human beings what he would not ordinarily do
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