It would have been really interesting

.........Religion was one of the few organized activities permitted for blacks during slavery. Slave owners would have been branded as sinners or worse if they denied salvation to their slaves. The church also provided an emotional release and a way protest their situation. The lyrics of "Let My People Go" have much more to do with the black desire for freedom then Moses leading his people to freedom............Immediately After the end of slavery the black church became major cultural and educational center. In the south,
as Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination became more entrenched, the church became the only real political power base. Martin Luther King and may other black civil rights movement were clergymen as is Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton............None of this is to say blacks are necessarily more or less religious then anyone else but it can't be argued the church wasn't a major force in the African American community..........In the alternate reality of this movie it would not be hard to imagine some white church activists struggling against the white power structure. It would have been interesting if depicted something like that.
TAG LINE: True genius is a beautiful thing, but ignorance is ugly to the bone.