The benevolent yet persistent tactics of the Black church have effectively flexed on the system of White Supremacy in the United States. Symbolically, legally, and economically the church achieved palpable Civil Rights advancement both guilt free and hands cleans of violence; even when its missionaries could deservedly claim self-defense if they ever decided to clap back.

If a movement begets the same violence it works to disrupt, its people morph into the Goliath they seemingly work to slay. The practicality of Black Christian leadership is that a gallon of bloodshed rarely makes waves.