http://clipmarks.com/clipper/ratilfar/date/2008/5/3/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/ratilfar/date/2008/5/3/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A7BB0DEE-8BE8-4955-9D34-27B49D2EDDDC/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/ratilfar/">ratilfar</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/" title="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/">www.salon.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>No to both. It's a mythic portrayal of King, a nostalgic portrayal of King -- because King was accused and vilified for being controversial, actually more controversial than Jeremiah Wright. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">On April 4, 1967, King stood in front of the Riverside Church and said that if America does not change its ways, America, if you continue to be so prideful, God will tear down this nation, and rise up another nation that doesn't even know my name.</div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index1.html" title="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index1.html">www.salon.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>When Cone wrote that "if God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him," for Cone, "white people" signifies the "white consciousness" that is constructed upon black marginalization. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>That's my point about its not being new or radical. If you contact the leading seminaries across this country, black theology of liberation is in all of their curriculums. </P></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index2.html" title="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index2.html">www.salon.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B>Such as in Tuskegee?</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Such as the Tuskegee experiments. Or America's complicity in Agent Orange. Or the American government's longtime denial of Gulf War syndrome</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wright/" rel="tag">wright</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/civil+rights/" rel="tag">civil rights</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/race/" rel="tag">race</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/religion/" rel="tag">religion</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/theology/" rel="tag">theology</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/history/" rel="tag">history</a></div>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/Sat, 03 May 2008 15:37:37 GMT