Jeremiah Wright and Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology has been the way that many religions and leaders have proposed that the problems of the poor and the oppressed can be address. It has been used successfully in Latin and Central America in addressing the needs of the poor and oppressed most recently in Paraguay where a former priest was elected to power. Since the 1960's James Cone, Columbia University professor, has preached this as a liberating force in African American churches for years as had his predecessor in MLK, Howard Thurman, David Walker, Richard Allen, Malcolm X, and Absalom Jones.



How should an oppressed people view God, religion? Can the oppressed and the oppressor worship the same God? The answer to these questions are troubling to black and white clergy because it calls them to practice the teachings of Jesus whom they would proffer as their leader. It is this that is unsettling about Jeremiah Wright. He calls them to bare living witness to and for our fellow man. Many are saying that they agree with his message, but the timing is bad, meaning that it can hurt the chances of Barack Obama from becoming president. Is Obama's quest for the Presidency of the United States, an imperialist and racist nation, more important than the liberation of Black people? Can liberation come from the presidency?



I was asked yesterday, while hosting a program on the radio, who is right Obama Or Jeremiah Wright? My answer was that they were both right. Obama is doing what he thinks he has to do to win, but he must be careful that the question that many African American raise is that he has payed scant attention to their issues while nightly he is bombarded with questions about how he will meet the needs of white working class voters. Jeremiah Wright on the other hand is being true to his calling. Obama risks eroding his Black support without which he cannot win. Jeremiah Wright's liberation theology views are being used not to alarm whites but to divide Black people. Racist whites and if they are over fifty most of them are are not going to vote for Obama under any circumstances. Obama needs to man up because this is what his supporters expect both here and abroad. We need to man and woman up as Black people and quit sniveling , wining, and worrying about what white people think. We know what they think.



My father who was born and raised in Alabama and who knew that his grandmother was killed when the slave master SAT the dogs upon her told me that "A pecker wood ain't shit"Let those who are not racist stand up and confess it before God. This is part of the message of Jeremiah Wright, but his most important message is those of us and the jive ass preachers who fleece us, promise us nothing on earth but swear they can put us on the express way to paradise. Hopefully they and their racist allies will get caught up in the rapture and leave the planet to the truly righteous folks.

A Loku for Bob Johnson

Once again Bob Johnson has seen fit to play the buffoon for the Clinton's by attacking Barak Obama, opining that if Obama were not Black he couldn't run for president. Johnson who has always played the race card when he has wanted something from us has a lot of moxie as the old folks would say. From District Cable, which he sold to Gene Autry and Black Entertainment Television which he sold to John Malone and Liberty Media, Johnson who could have been as powerful as Rupert Murdoch and as influential in the world while at the same time providing a much needed media outlet for people of African descent traded power and influence for money. Now he is a negro with a lot of money whose only value is to save master's house when it catches on fire.A loku for Bob Johnson .He owes his riches to Black people and his ass to white people.


Black people should reward him by boycotting his enterprises including the Charlotte Bobcats and encourage season ticket holders not to renew.

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