Much has been made of Jeremiah Wright Jr. and his incendiary commits. Wright, of course, is the former pastor and spiritual advisor of Barack Obama. As many focus in on Wright, I think they’re missing the big picture. It’s relatively easy for Obama to distance himself from an individual. It’s more problematic distancing yourself from a movement.
It’s called black liberation theology. Wright is a follower of James Cone, the founder of the modern black liberation theology movement. Wright was merely a spokesman for his church, which is also part of this movement. Cone wrote in his book, “Black Theology & Black Power,” that the United States is a racist nation and the white church is the Antichrist because of its historic support for slavery. That was in 1969 but, apparently, little has happened to change his view. At the center of his black liberation theology is a belief that God is only the God of the oppressed. He and Wright believe that God only shows Himself to the oppressed and if He is the God of the white people, too, He is a racist.
“Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not,” Cone writes. “Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.”
Good luck on that, Mr. Cone.
There’s another word for black liberation theology. It’s called racism. Black liberation theologians are, in essence, religious black supremacists. They believe God has chosen them over whites. Black liberation theology also has a healthy dose of communism. “Together, black religion and Marxist philosophy may show us the way to build a completely new society,” wrote Cone. Is this what Obama means by change?
James Cone and Jeremiah Wright are dinosaurs, relics from a by-gone age. They cling to the golden age of the civil rights movement when black people were actually oppressed. The problem is, my children’s generation doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. My kids don’t see life through the prism of race. They merely see other people. Some of their biggest heroes are black. Some of their best friends are black. They don’t get it, nor should we try to make them. That’s not to say that they shouldn’t be educated on the history of the civil rights movement, but it should be at the same distance they look at World War II. Too many people want to pass down the guilt of being white and the victimhood of being black. Both must stop.
The black liberation theology movement has an unspoken agenda. Keep hate alive. You’ve heard the inflammatory remarks of Wright. What you have to understand is they are not his, alone. They are part of a larger movement of which Obama’s church is a part. By extension, so is Barack Obama. It’s not a matter of taking Wright out of context. It’s a matter of the entire church being part of a racist worldview. Trinity United Church of Christ is “unashamedly black,” it brags on its Web site. That’s nice and inclusive.
Obama was born and raised in Hawaii, far away from any semblance of racial segregation and bigotry. He also attended the finest private schools in the state. Yet, he dares cry “oppression” and immerses himself and his family in racial bigotry. The days when black people get a pass on being a racist just because they’re black are over.
