DNC Chief Of Staff Is Proponent Of Black Liberation Theology

thedrunkablog.blogspot.com ^ | July 20, 2008

[Free ThinkerNY]

The New York Times Magazine has a long (natch) profile of Pentecostal preacher Leah Daughtry, who also happens to be head planner for the Democratic National Convention. It's about what you'd expect, except that, lying doggo among all the little character-defining tidbits in the piece (Daughtry preaches barefoot!) was this:

Behind her as she preached, a simple wooden cross hung on a brick wall in the vaulted and sizable sanctuary of the church, which is headed by her father, Herbert Daughtry. A prison convert who served time in his early 20s for armed robbery and passing bad checks, Herbert Daughtry — whose father founded the church and whose grandfather and great-grandfather were also ministers — became the church’s pastor 50 years ago, and today Leah was delivering the sermon as part of an anniversary celebration. Below the sanctuary, in the fellowship hall, a banner for slavery reparations proclaimed, “They Owe Us.” Fliers recounted Herbert Daughtry’s arrest, a few weeks earlier, as he led marchers protesting the not-guilty verdict in the police killing of Sean Bell, an unarmed black man. His ministry has always combined consuming spirituality with black liberation theology — the theology Jeremiah Wright invoked this spring to defend his controversial sermons — and zealous political activism. Leah holds these forces within her.

She also lets them out quite regularly:

It was this writing (James Cone's The Theology of Black Liberation) that Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s longtime pastor, cited to support the sermons that led Obama to cut ties with Wright in April.

[SatinDoll]

The United States owes you nothing. If any group or individual doesn't like it here, they are free to immigrate to somewhere else. If a black American hates whites and European culture, then go to Africa. Good luck. They don't tolerate whiners there anymore than most folks here will tolerate whining.

[SatinDoll]

Sorry, Free ThinkerNY - but the post left out something, like the first line.

“They owe us.”

[redstates4ever]

I am sure Diane Sawyer and Katie Kouric are outraged about this, and will be talking it up on TV. /mega sarcasm