Posted on 03/19/2008 7:38:01 AM PDT by vietvet67
Now, suddenly, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is misunderstood. Suddenly, so-called black liberation theology is misunderstood.
Wright's successor at Trinity United Church of Christ, the Reverend Otis Moss III, won't bow to the wishes of "they" to shut up. It begs the question: "Who are they?" The larger white cultural? Or liberals and Democrats who see all this unfavorable publicity hurting the election chances of Barack Obama?
The sad truth is that neither the Reverend Wright nor black liberation theology is being misunderstood. Both, thanks to the candidacy of Barack Obama, are being exposed. God, in fact, works in mysterious ways. And unless it's the aforementioned liberals and Democrats who are trying to hush up Wright, Moss and others of their ilk, sensible Americans want to hear more, for knowledge is power, the power to combat hate.
And make no mistake, what Americans are hearing, they don't like. In the Rasmussen poll, 73% of voters find Wright's comments to be racially divisive. That's a broad cross section of voters, including 58% of black voters.
In an article in the Washington Post, unnamed ministers commented that black liberation theology "encourages a preacher to speak forcefully against the institutions of oppression..."
And what might these institutions be? They are not specified. But it is safe to say that they are not the welfare state or the Democratic Party. Given that black liberation theology is a product of the dreary leftist politics of the twentieth century, the very vehicles employed by the left to advance statism certainly can't be the culprits.
For the left, black liberation theology makes for close to a perfect faith. It is a political creed larded with religion. It serves not to reconcile and unite blacks with the larger cultural, but to keep them separate. Here, again, The Washington Post reports that "He [Wright] translated the Bible into lessons about...the misguided pursuit of ‘middle-classness.'"
Not very Martin Luther King-ish. Further, all the kooky talk about the government infecting blacks with HIV is a fine example of how the left will promote a lie to nurture alienation and grievance. To listen to Wright -- more an apostle of the left than the Christian church -- the model for blacks is alienation, deep resentment, separation and grievance. All of which leads to militancy. Militancy is important. It's the sword dangled over the head of society. Either fork over more tax dollars, government services and patronage or else. And unlike the Reverend Moss and his kindred, I'll specify the "else." Civil unrest. Disruptions in cities. Riot in the streets.
Keeping blacks who fall into the orbit of a Reverend Wright at a near-boil is a card used by leftist agitators to serve their ends: they want bigger and more pervasive government -- and they want badly to run it.
If any further proof is needed that black liberation theology has nothing to do with the vision of Martin Luther King -- with reconciliation, brotherhood and universality -- the words of James H. Cone, on faculty at New York's Union Theological Seminary, may persuade. Cone, not incidentally, originated the movement known as black liberation theology. He said to The Washington Post:
"The Christian faith has been interpreted largely by those who enslaved black people, and by the people who segregated them."
No mention of the Civil War involving the sacrifices of tens of thousands of lives; no abolition or civil rights movements. No Abraham Lincoln. No Harriet Beecher Stowe. No white civil rights workers who risked and, in some instances, lost their lives crusading in the south to end segregation. And since the civil rights movement, society hasn't opened up; blacks have no better access to jobs and housing; no greater opportunities. The federal government, led by a white liberal, Lyndon Johnson, did not pour billions of dollars into welfare programs and education targeted at inner cities in an attempt to right old wrongs. And still does so. A black man, Barak Obama, on the threshold of winning his party's nomination for president, has in no way done so with the help of white voters in communities across the land.
In the closed world of Cone, Wright and Moss, Jefferson Davis and Bull Connor are alive and well. Black victimhood is the doing of white society, not the doing of angry black leaders and leftists, who see advantage and profit in keeping too many people in black communities captive.
Barack Obama knows all this, as a seventeen year congregant at Wright's church, and as a liberal community activist prior to his election to the Illinois Senate. That he feigns innocence, or that he professes forbearance for some of Wright's words because of the goodness others, is not the line one expects from a post-racial politician. It is what is expected from a man whose career is steeped in racial politics, a politics that does great harm to the very people it purports to serve. Recent Articles Obama's Coming-Out Speech It's Time to Call the Democrats on Race Demagogy The Real Agenda of Black Liberation Theology Obama's Big Speech Is Obama Trying to Bamboozle Us with His Wright Denials? The New Jimmy Carter William Jefferson Obama The Lawyers' Party Iraq Vets for Congress A President Obama's Neoliberal Theocracy Blog Posts Damn Chickens (continued) The Children of Hypocrisy Did Obama blow his chance? CNN Pro-Obama and Pro-Wright All the Time 2008: Arthur C Clarke's Odyssey's End Obamababble AT editors on Blog Talk Radio More lawyerly evasions needed Reactions to Obama's speech New Black Panther Party for Obama Monthly Archives March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 More...
James Cohen wrote in his 1969 book, Black Theology and Black Power, at p. 15, “Blacks do hate whites, but black hatred is not racism.”
I think that explains a lot of Obama’s twattle on the topic.
Are people unaware that Africans traded in slaves and that there is still slavery in Africa? What’s more, many white Americans arrived on these shores as indentured servants.
Those facts have been removed from the history books and are no longer taught in school, apparently.
Keeping ‘em militant — at a boil — is the short term agenda. For long term agenda, think Zimbabwe. Harmony will NEVER be in the cards for these people.
I sent this quote to Hannity and a lot of other people and Hannity has now read the quote from the Rev. James Cone. Cone also said that blacks hate whites, but black hatred is not racism. There’s a good wikipedia entry on Cone.
A white priest told me the same thing in my high school Social Justice class. This is based on an idea propagated by Foucault that the "powerless" are incapable of racism, as power is necessary for racism to be enforced in society.
“No grievance left behind”
Hey, Foucault would say anything. He was like the weather in Texas, wait five minutes and it will change. I think he once said that he would like his work to be viewed like a big toolbox where people could find anything they could use.
Listening to an angry Bob Beckel on Hannity’s show. Beckel makes no apologies for Wright’s horrible statements. In fact he seems to believe that they’re justified. Obviously many white libs feel the same way. Beckel could not make the distinction between persons, a number of Republican candidates, who speak at Bob Jones U and that of someone, Obama, who is mentored by somebody who hates America. That cluelessness will probably cost the Dems the election...I hope.
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