Black Liberation Theology in Action?

Black Liberation Theology in Action?

“Black Liberation Theology,” is a term supposedly coined by James H. Cone who actually glommed it from the South American Marxist “Liberation Theology” movement of the fifties.

Cone synthesized his American meaning when he said, “The Christian faith has been interpreted largely by those who enslaved black people, and by the people who segregated them.” It goes far beyond a disaffection with Christianity.

As one observer wrote, it is “a product of the dreary, leftist politics of the twentieth century” to which “Militancy is important. It’s the sword dangled over the head of society. Either fork over more tax dollars, government services and patronage or else. . . [under threat of} Civil unrest. Disruptions in cities. Riot in the streets:” http://bit.ly/4EYouE.

Sound familiar? It should. We have witnessed that civil unrest, that militancy, those disruptions, those riots for decades. They are intrinsic to black liberation and civil rights movements. Ironically, they are often promulgated from the pulpits of supposedly Christian churches.

Two recent race-tinged stories may reflect a very feasible relationship to Black Liberation Theology follow:

ONE: The following dialogue is fabricated. The facts of the incident–involving 3 people in a Harlem bar, a black man, a white woman, and a white man–are not.

Black Man: “Don’t you think that white privilege has gone on long enough in this country?”

White woman: “What exactly do you mean by ‘white privilege?’ “

“You know goddamned well what I mean! Now I’ll show you some black privilege!”

With that, a 59 year old Columbia University prof hauled off and sucker-punched the white woman in the face and then for good measure took a swing at the white man who intervened.

As reported by the New York Post, the black man, Professor Lionel MacIntyre, and the white woman, Ms. Camille Davis, had been involved a racial disagreement a few weeks earlier. Last Friday, it ignited into a “fiery discussion” at the bar, Toast.

MacIntyre concluded that chat by shoving and punching Davis . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1321)