That’s one of the profanities he uses from the pulpit, as a matter of fact.
Read Shelby Steele’s works for an analysyis.
The biggest danger to ‘black victim identity’ is the black man who is a success.
“To stop this threat, the black identity censors individuality by enforcing a rigid ‘party line’...
The party line itself is a loose series of broad assumptions: . . . that white racism and racial discrimination are still the primary black problems. . . that institutional racism is automatically present in the workplace. . . that blacks are not ‘given’ enough chances to advance. . . that high black crime rates are the outgrowth of victimization. . . etc.
Though there is some truth in many of these assumptions, their overall effect is to make the black identity an identity of accusation that offers its subscribers a way to recompose their vulnerability into victimization. Nowhere in the current black identity is there a strong theme of responsibility for our own fate, nor are there positive themes that define our character as a people or highlight our many strengths. It is an identity formed in the cauldron of racial politics, and its primary assumptions accuse others and defend ourselves. . .
The woman I mentioned at the outset who always corrected my grammar was blithe to the racial doubt that her efforts brought to life in me. And even when that doubt came to light in my recomposed judgment of her as a racist, she was unwilling to be stopped by it. Without denying it, she would not allow it to have any power. . . Of course, what she did for me was a gift. But this gift was only secondarily related to better grammar. The real gift was that she helped me to see how easy it is to delude oneself where race is concerned. When she would not allow my distortion, I had to see the simplest thing: there was really nothing to be afraid of. “
—”The Content of Our Character” pp. 72-75