It is time to put Obama's "black experience" excuse for Reverend Wright racist behavior to bed. Beyond the fact that Obama's qualifications to speak of the "black experience" in America are about as real as his white grandmother's qualifications, the very basis of his own religion discounts this excuse. Obama's racist religion and the black liberation theology it is founded upon, do not excuse Reverend Wright's hate speech or Obama's 20 years of worship under him, on the basis of the "black experience". Black Liberation Theology is based on a condemnation of white people that far predates America and its institution of slavery and racism and thus, far predates the "black experience" used as a justification for the "resentment" held by black America and the hate teachings of Obama's mentor. James Cone, the founder of Black Theology, and the Reverend Wright make that very clear in their teachings. Obama's religion is one that bases its condemnation of white people on events that occurred in biblical times.
Reverend Wright (Obama's mentor) spewed the following:
"Jesus was a poor black man who lived who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people.
The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians which means they were European which means they were white. And the Romans ran everything which was in Jesus's country.
It just came to me within the past few weeks y'all why so many folks are hating on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model. He ain't white. He ain't rich and he ain't privileged.
Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold. Giuliani fits the mold. White men fit the mold."
James Cone, founder of black liberation theology, and often cited by Reverend Wright as the authority for his teachings, wrote the following in his 1969 book "Black Theology and Black Power"
"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. "
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_...e/JC18Aa01.html
Thus, despite the "black experience" justification offered by Obama for Reverend Wright's behavior, it is clear, or unclear, that in Reverend Wright's muddled mind, and in the mind of the founder of Obama's religion, black liberation theology and the damning of white people has nothing to do with the "black experience" in America. Instead, said damnation dates back to the white people's treatment of Black Jesus and their unnamed acts of oppression. Which is in stark contradiction to Obama's "black experience" excuse.
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