When you see a lynched black body, that’s who God is. …
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. …
— James Cone, blasphemer
Let's have a show-of-hands of all the people alive today who've seen "a lynched black body" other than in a (very old) photograph.
Yeah, that's what I thought.