African American Sacred/Secular Continuum

 African American ways of knowing operate on a Sacred/Secular Continuum. This means there is rarely a division between sacred and secular ideologies. This is because historically sacred gatherings were the only place Black people could gatherer without the gaze of white overseers.   Historically the Black church initiated and sustained insurrections and critical activism. Both Sojourner Truth and Malcolm X, were Preachers

African American oratorical output has six classification schemes.
(1)  to protest grievances (2) to state complains (3) to demand rights (4) to advocate radical cooperation (5) to mold racial consciousness and (6) to simulate racial pride  (Gilyard 2011)