Wright's theology not "new or radical"

ratilfar

5-3-2008 10:37 AM

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It's a mythic portrayal of King, a nostalgic portrayal of King -- because King was accused and vilified for being controversial, actually more controversial than Jeremiah Wright. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/">On April 4, 1967, King stood in front of the Riverside Church and said that if America does not change its ways, America, if you continue to be so prideful, God will tear down this nation, and rise up another nation that doesn't even know my name.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index1.html" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.salon.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index1.html"><P>When Cone wrote that "if God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him," for Cone, "white people" signifies the "white consciousness" that is constructed upon black marginalization. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index1.html"><P>That's my point about its not being new or radical. If you contact the leading seminaries across this country, black theology of liberation is in all of their curriculums. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index2.html" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index2.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.salon.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index2.html"><B>Such as in Tuskegee?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index2.html">Such as the Tuskegee experiments. 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5-3-2008 11:41 AM

kmcolo

Good luck with that one and let's hope for the best.

5-3-2008 5:03 PM

masbury

Bravo, and absolutely correct. It is rarely in the churches of the socially dominant that the most Christ-like are found; he himself avoided such company. American Christians owe a great deal to the Black church - and we (who are white) would do well to be quiet and listen deeply.

5-3-2008 5:45 PM

kmcolo

As a pedestrian in the U.S. you have the right-of-way when entering a crosswalk (with the light green of course if present). Now if someone hits you they are in the wrong, but you are still hurt or dead.
It does not matter for Obama if Wright's argument has validity, it matters how it is perceived and received. Unfortunately for Obama that reception has not been so good. You cannot help Obama by trying to defend Wright no matter how justified or thoughtful Wright might be. The bus that is American public opinion ran over Wright and hurt Obama by association. My suggestion would be to stop trying to push Obama into the intersection too just so that you can cry justified foul on the Rep...

5-4-2008 3:08 AM