“The keeper of the legacy in the past who kept the history alive in a culture of no written word.”
Your assertion — the black church as the keeper of black history — perhaps supplies us with a cogent explanation for the histrionics of pastors such as reverend Wright, namely, to impress this history on their congregations: in the most forceful, powerful, and unforgettable terms.
Very interesting.
Much better than Obama’s ‘it’s a black thing’ ‘you wouldn’t understand’ explaination.
Every culture both modern and tribal or primitive has people who orate or scribe the traditions
and tell the story, narrate and on occasion rouse.
400 years ago Wright would be rousing the tribe around the campfire.
White culture has the same tradition of speakers but obviously has relied much less on an oral recorded tradition
or maybe he woulda been the spiritual shaman
on another note, I believe Wright and his black liberation theology seeks to fill a niche for black resentments that are not quite up to accepting Nation of Islam vitriol and prefer a Christianized version of the same thing more or less
in any event, he should be scorned as it is now.
however...it looks bleak....black support for this crap even if only tacit seems huge