I’ve read one of Cone’s books and listened to some sermons from Trinity. It’s not Christianity, and it is definitely racist. I suspect Obama is too stupid to even know these things—he doesn’t strike me as someone who ever reflects upon what he has been told, he just Believes.
Nepeta, Don’t be ridiculous. In his book, Dreams from My Father. He was interested in the Black Nationalism and Malcolm X even before he left Hawaii. He had a Black Nationalist friend in Hawaii. He wrote about a page about the benefits of racial hatred of whites by Black Nationalists. BLT is just another form of Black Nationalism, a little under the radar. It would be silly to think that he stayed in that church for 20 years and Wright, his self-described spiritual guide, never explained it to him. I think people WANT to believe that Obama didn’t know, because it gives them an excuse to appease him and his followers and not do anything about it.