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Dear Black Liberation Theology
Reverend James Cone, authored a book entitled Black Theology and Black Power. Within this book, Rev. James Cone articulates how he curated his Black Liberation theology:
“For me, the burning theological question was, how can I reconcile Christianity and Black Power, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s idea of nonviolence and Malcolm X’s ‘by any means necessary’ philosophy? The writing of Black Theology and Black Power was the beginning of my search for a resolution of that dilemma.”
Ever since we were brought to the Americas and the Caribbean islands via slave ships, our people have been trying to obtain liberation from our oppressed condition. From slave abolitionists. To Civil Rights icons/leaders. Anti-segregationists. The Civil Rights Movement. Black Power rhetoric. To the Black Lives Matter Movement, which was founded in my generation. It seems we are exhausting all of our social, academic, economic, religious, and political options, to palate true liberation, as a people. However, what or who, are we trying to be liberated from?
Racism. See, if this virulent intangible phenomenon, called racism, was non-extant, then everything would be perfect, no? Is racism the root of all African-American oppression? Let me take care to say: I am cognizant that prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race, predicated…
