Black Liberation Theology: Obama's Pastor Starts the Dialogue

Among suburban Whites, Latinos and Blacks little is known about Black Liberation Theology. Oh sure we may have heard it preached by an angry black preacher from time to time but we really don't understand it. We figure it is just bitterness from past racial injustice and since we don't feel sufficiently guilty for what people did 100 years ago we let them have their anger.

However, now Barack Obama has been exposed as supporting this theology, being great friends with a Pastor who preaches it, so we are all learning about....isn't that special? It is great fun to watch liberals spinning around in various ways to excuse it. Even more fun is to know that Hillary has no way of winning the nomination so we will be able to continue to explore this for many months to come...and watch people try to defend it....priceless.

Surely we have misunderstood and exaggerated the situation with Barack Obama’s minister and spiritual advisor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? So the media on the left would have us believe. Obama has settled the Apostle of Apartheid question, and the campaign can move on. … Not. As Jeffrey Schmidt points out:

“Neither the Reverend Wright nor black liberation theology is being misunderstood. Both, thanks to the candidacy of Barack Obama, are being exposed. God, in fact, works in mysterious ways. And unless it’s the aforementioned liberals and Democrats who are trying to hush up Wright, Moss and others of their ilk, sensible Americans want to hear more, for knowledge is power, the power to combat hate.

“And make no mistake, what Americans are hearing, they don’t like. In the Rasmussen poll, 73% of voters find Wright’s comments to be racially divisive. That’s a broad cross section of voters, including 58% of black voters. …

“For the left, black liberation theology makes for close to a perfect faith. It is a political creed larded with religion. It serves not to reconcile and unite blacks with the larger cultural, but to keep them separate. Here, again, The Washington Post reports that “He [Wright] translated the Bible into lessons about…the misguided pursuit of ‘middle-classness.’” …

“All the kooky talk about the government infecting blacks with HIV is a fine example of how the left will promote a lie to nurture alienation and grievance. To listen to Wright — more an apostle of the left than the Christian church — the model for blacks is alienation, deep resentment, separation and READ THE REST of this excellent piece over at Iperceive.net.