Sherriel Weithers of United Voices for a Common Cause (UVCC) recently sent Morris Brown a website inquiry asking, “Have the black Christian People lost their backbone?” with a link to “Has Black America Lost Its Backbone?” – a column by H. Lewis Smith, founder and President of UVCC.

Mr. Smith makes a strong case for the elimination of the infamous “n-word” from the African-American vocabulary, chronicling our past strength as a community in the face of racism and adversity and lamenting our loss of focus and momentum in recent generations. He takes special note of the profuse use of the aforementioned word in rap and hip hop, saying, “Ministers, community leaders, and civil rights leaders did absolutely nothing to derail this process; instead, they gave this incorrigible travesty its pathetic blessings.”