Posted on 03/18/2008 1:15:35 PM PDT by CA Conservative
Barack Obama took the stage this morning to give what was billed as a "major speech on race." It was, of course, an attempt to rescue his campaign from the revelation that his so-called spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, espouses a virulently anti-American and antiwhite worldview called "black liberation theology."
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What Obama is evading is that this "profoundly distorted view" is not just some passing emotion. It is what Wright himself, in the "talking points" page of his congregation's Web site, describes as "systematized black liberation theology." As we noted yesterday, Wright credits James Cone of New York's Union Theological Seminary with having undertaken this systematization. Here again is Cone's description of black liberation theology:
"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."
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Plus Obama attributes all of this, white and black racism, to corporate greed and class warfare. This was a deeply left wing speech.
What's the problem? You are not a racists?
Lincoln said "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
I guess Barry Hussein just found that out.
HE AIN'T FOOLING NOBODY ANYMORE.
Yes, but he's ashamed of her, so he's keeping her hidden from the press.
Is "systematized" even a word?
That is the bigger problem with this church. Liberation theology in all its forms boils down to socialism. This guy is a far lefty masquerading as a moderate unifier. So far a bunch of gullible white people are buying it.
All racial nationalism is FASCIST, yet the left has indulged it since the days of Franz Fanon.
ObamaMomma, ObamaPapaw, and ObamaBigmomma.
Naughty, naughty Bigmomma.
There is nothing Godly or Christian about that theology.
Back when Romney’s religion was the issue, I was approached for a “man-on-the-street” opinion. The questioner was excited when I revealed that I was Catholic. She was a somewhat dumbfounded by my answer: “Obama’s church should be much more frightening to people than Romney’s.” Needless to say, I didn’t make the cut.
Any time someone claims that “black liberation theology” isn’t racist, challenge them to substitute the word “black” with “white” and re-read the core tenets of that “theology” to see how plainly and malignantly racist it truly is.
Yep, White Grandma lives in an apartment in Hawaii. Reportedly, she’s off-limits to the media.
Fortunately, we don't really pay much attention to what the "mainstream" (yeah, right!) media directs us to believe.
I think this thing of throwing his grandmother under the bus to save his own skin may end up being a pretty big deal ... probably not in the MSM, but on the Internet, talk radio, maybe late night comedy.
The more you think about it, the more seaminess it oozes.
As we noted yesterday, Wright credits James Cone of New York's Union Theological Seminary with having undertaken this systematization. Here again is Cone's description of black liberation theology:Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
Throughout the early 1990's during the Latasha Harlans, Rodney King and OJ Simpson cases, local talk radio here in L.A. was rife with black venom and hatred of the type spewed by "Rev." Wright. I heard it on radio and saw it in the streets where I live and work. So Wright's screed did not shock me. However, this so-called black theology, as expressed in the above quote, packs an enormous wallop.
Wow! This is something way beyond hatred. This is a militancy almost at the level of jihad-spewing Muslim clerics.
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