Over the years I’ve discussed the work of Colbert King, a deputy editor at the Washington Post, on a number of occasions (one, two, three, four, five, six). But his column today may be the prizewinner, answering as it does the question that everyone has been asking: “Why Obama Stands With His Church.”
The reason? Once you see it, you’ll kick yourself (I know I did) for not thinking of it yourself: “Absalom Jones and Richard Allen.”
Really. Jones became the first black Episcopal priest and Allen founded what became the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. They’re the reason Obama, no planning his campaign to transcend race and bridge the gulf between black and white, sat mute for 20 years while Rev. Wright accused his country of inventing AIDS and importing cocaine in order to kill and imprison blacks.
For some reason, however, Rev. Wright does not cite Jones and Allen as his spiritual progenitors. Instead, he cites the founder of Black Liberation Theology, James Cone, a professor at Uniion Theological Seminary. What this Cone holds is not ice cream but teachings such as the following (as quoted here):
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.
Another example, chosen from many that are now making the rounds:
According to a 1995 book, Soul in Society by Gary J. Dorrien, Mr. Cone said, “White religionists are not capable of perceiving the blackness of God because their satanic whiteness is a denial of the very existence of divinity. … That is why whites are finding and will continue to find the black experience a disturbing reality. … God could not be white because white is the color of oppressors.”
I think Obama’s failing here was not that he didn’t march out of his church and Rev. Wright’s life in a huff; it’s that so far as we know he did nothing to combat or counteract the corrosive hate that was being promulgated from his pulpit for all those years. That’s not leadership; it’s not judgment; and it’s certainly not demonstrating either the desire or ability to bring the races together.
Happy Easter, John.
This ideology has been floating around for a long time. It was already popular with the extreme left in the mid 70s during the revolution and war in Nicaragua. Liberation theology is an attempt to re-interpret Marxism to supposedly infuse it with spirituality.
Sadly, I’ve come to the conclusion that Obama is simply another race huckster. If you read Steve Sailer today, you’ll discover that Obama jumped on the Jena bandwagon. In other words, he’s found a way to justify the gang beating of a young white man with the usual lies about the racist judicial system.
I am very disappointed. I had really hoped that Obama was something different, but he is not. He’s just another con man of the Sharpton variety.
This vicious hatred of white America and the U.S. government is not limited to Obama. Since I live in an extreme leftist community, I can tell you that the white extreme left also carries this lunatic hatred. We just had a 9-11 Truther bash in Woodstock. Observing these people, you can see just how determined they are to believe that Republicans and President Bush are the ultimate evils in the history of the world.
I’m not a Bush supporter. I even think he may have gotten us in over our heads in Iraq.
Something absolutely crazy is going on in the far left. They actually want it to be true that our President attacked and killed his own people. They hate their own country and their own people this fiercely.
And not to go on for too long, but if you want to see this phenomenon at its worst, look at the implosion of Antioch College. Hatred of authority combined with a witch hunt incited by the sexual abuse and rape hysterias led to the collapse and bankruptcy of that citadel of the extreme left.
It is truly astonishing and terrifying.