James Cone is
known as the founder of Black Liberation Theology. Many people didn't hear of
this until the election of Barrack Obama and his involvement with Pastor
Jeremiah Wright came into public view. That is to say many people born after
the turmoil of the 1960’s anyway. Black Liberation Theology is a byproduct of
the radical social justice movement of the 1960’s and is the for bearer of today’s
“Critical Race Theory” that we hear so much about. It is the original thinking
of black Marxists who believed that the “white system” blacks were forced to
live in was nothing short of oppressive, and as long as blacks were integrated
with whites their humanity would forever be ignored because whites were driven
by nothing but a lust for power and wealth and routinely subjugated all people
of color in order to achieve this. One of the main principles of CRT is the
idea that blacks cannot be racist because the institutional power within the United
States was dominated and driven by whites; therefore, blacks did not have the
institutional power to discriminate. This is derived from Cones writings, which
suggested that blacks in America had been systematically denied any social or
political power. Cone argues that it was the white man’s attempts to integrate
the black man into white culture which has denied them their own cultural
identity. He suggests that by assuming black people can live in the same type
of society as the white man we are systematically oppressing them and, as noted
in several of my other articles, suggests that only by creating a system of
racial preferences can you truly empower people of color.
James Cone has
even gone as far as intertwining the Christian faith into this theory as the
word “theology” so amply suggests. He claims that the faith of the white man is
not a true theology; as the gospel of Jesus Christ is written in the Bible was
a story of oppressed and oppressors. The Bible, James contends is a story of
black liberation as Jesus was a poor black man oppressed by the rich white
folk. In the early years of Obama’s
presidency the roots of his belief in this type of radical thinking became
apparent when he claimed that America was in need of a “collective salvation.”
This is very indicative of two things, one a heavy influence of Marxist
indoctrination as the word “collective” indicates and two, a deep rooted belief
that the slave past of Americas history has so damaged the black race and was
so inherently evil, that only by a willing commitment to its liberation from
the crushing boot of white supremacy can America have any chance of being
saved. America, this is the core of what the left believes. This is the driving
philosophy being employed to keep you and I separated and confused.
To put it simply,
this is religion, and its driving faith is one of liberation from what the
black Marxists view as an evil oppressor that does nothing but ignore the
humanity of minorities. They have truly come to view themselves as a class of
people who cannot nor should not even try to integrate with the white man’s
ways as the science of victomology has been so deeply entrenched in their psyche
there is literally no way of escaping it. Virtually every disappointing
experience a black man has today can be attributed to, by black liberation
theologians as stemming from the historic roots of oppression. In fact,they are
even encouraged to hang on to this victimized mindset as our public education
system continuously reminds them of their past and even lies about no less to
give the impression that the liberal democrats have been the ones fighting for
their civil rights. Enough has been said about this. There are plenty of
articles here at The Radical Conservative that discusses this in greater
detail. The point is; blacks are being taught that they are oppressed victims and
it is constantly reinforced throughout their whole educational careers.
Concepts like generational poverty give the impression that there is no way
that impoverished blacks can ever work their way out of it as their predicament
is solely the cause of rich white men intentionally keeping them down for
financial gain. Black men that do rise out of this abject poverty are all but
discredited and accused of being out of touch with their “blackness.” In black
liberation theology blackness generally refers to any group of people who have
been systematically oppressed by the white man. Just that mind set alone reeks
of “victim mentality.”
This belief seems
to have a dangerous revolutionary underpinning to it. As we watch on an almost
regular basis now, a steady rise in black on white violence, violence that is
all but ignored by the media until it happens to one of their own, violence
where the race of the perpetrators is never reported and violence that is most
likely to involve a mob of angry young men aiming their aggression at a lone
target, we have to ask what role Black Liberation Theology and Critical Race
theory is playing in this violence. James Cone was a man who truly believed
that the white man was the enemy of blacks around the world. Not just blacks
but all peoples of color. He was a man that preached that true equality for
blacks would never be achieved while being without social or political power in
a nation where the white man imposes his will upon the black race. Looking at
some of the core tenants upon which Cone founded black liberation theology
suggests the possibility that the victimhood mentality is being used to drive
the black man to a state of such anger and hopelessness that violence is the
only solution they see to their “state of oppression.” Given the fact that
president Obama was a community organizer who operated under the Alinsky method
of causing hate and discontent, this possibility cannot be discounted.
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