Now, in that kind of an atmosphere, are you going to teach your kids about dignity, identity, and significance, which might result in their death; or are you going to withhold those secrets from them, so they can at least survive? So, what happened then? In the South, the theology of empowerment was abandoned. And the church in the South reverted to the old theology of suffering, which developed during slavery. In essence, the church was forced to accommodate to the new racist situation in the South.