As an Army Chaplain, my of the chaplains and the lay pastors in the many communities I served were black. Most of them were among the most conservative Christians I’ve ever met. (One Baptist pastor preached at a funeral I attended the best funeral sermon on grace that I’ve ever heard.)
Other black pastors and chaplains are among the most liberal I’ve ever met. One of the odd things about theological liberals is that they don’t believe the bible is really the word of God. I say that because they reject many of the books as authoritative, and they then define the remainder as “myth”. (A myth might teach a good moral, but it is not considered an historical account.)
In the same way they “practice” Christian things because that is the “form” that is “traditional”. I suspect that this explains Jeremiah Wright.
Many of these pastors in this photo might well have been solid, bible-believing pastors who truly do want God to overcome the decisions of the president by leading him instead to right decisions. They could have been a mixed group. They could have been a cluster of Jeremiah Wright clones.
Cardinal Ratzinger autjored an essay on this Marxist infiltration of the Church in Latin America.
http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ratzinger/liberationtheol.htm
James Hal Cone (and others) adapted this Marxist heresy to explain the class struggle of Black America against white oppressors. It basically teaches that the white oppressor must be overthrown by any and all means, including violence, deception, and revolution. Scripture is generally interpreted (twisted) to demonstrate that the end justifies the means, and that hatred against white America is moral and necessary.
It has apparently permeated much of the ‘Black’ Church in the US.
It is very important for Christians to be very discerning in these times! I don't know when this photo was taken - it may have been while he was running for the Presidency...
IMO, we discount the role that slavery and Jim Crow plays in this thinking. Blacks were rescued from slavery by a strong fed govt. Blacks were freed from Jim Crow by a strong fed govt. The dominant liberal ideology of Black culture is a continuation of that support for where their freedom came from. It is such a strong part of the Black culture that it is a part of their religious beliefs.