John McCain and the GOP should only have to repeat three little words every day to defeat Barack Obama and any Democrat that supports him: Black Liberation Theology.  Why the GOP, and the media, has left this issue to the wayside is beyond me.  Barack Obama’s history at Trinity United, the institutionalized face of Black Liberation Theology, should supply Republicans with all the ammunition they need to beat the young Senator and his supporters.  Sen. Obama has conveniently left his long time church in the face of political pressure, but many people still do not even realize how extremely radical Trinity’s views are, and what Barack Obama has believed in for the past twenty years.

To know Trinity United Church of Christ, to know its former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and to know United States Senator Barack Obama, one must know Black Liberation Theology.  Wright states specifically on his church’s website that, “The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.”  That statement:

“We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.”

This vision shows one of the major parts of Black Liberation Theology of the need for Blacks to separate themselves from the White Community.  In the preface to Wright’s book, A Black Theology of Liberation, he wrote, “There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness.” 

Dr. James Cone, a central architect of Black theology, writes of a need for a “complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary,” believing that, “All white men are responsible for white oppression. . . .”  But Cone is quick to point out that Black racism is a “device of white liberals,” and “a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings.”

Wright’s approach of affirming this separation is by focusing specifically on a connection to Africa.  Wright would have his parish believe that separation from Whites would solve the problems of the Blacks in America, so they should support areas, such as Africa, that are dominated by all Black communities.  Africa should also be a source of identity as the ancestral home of Blacks before White people enslaved them and invented racism.  Though Wright, Cone, Obama, and all of their supporters live in America, the United States is guilty of racial injustice, and according to Wright, is trying to exterminate Black people, so, love for America and her traditional principles doesn’t seem to be an option.  (Continued below...)

Anyone who has ever read a history book would know that slavery existed in Africa long before any White man stepped foot there, and the continuing slave trade that led to slavery in America was supported by native Africans.  William Duiker and Jackson Spielvogel mention in their text, The Essential World History, that, “In a letter to the king of Portugal in 1526, King Affonso of Congo (Bakongo) complained that ‘so great, Sire, is the corruption and licentiousness that our country is being completely depopulated.’  As a general rule, however, local monarchs viewed the slave trade as a source of income, and many launched forays against defenseless villages in search of unsuspecting victims.”

Black theology hinges on the Biblical verse:

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luke 4:18-19)  

Cone says that Jesus, who is Black, starts a mission that “is essentially one of liberation.”  Cone wrote that, “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’  The white structure of this American society, personified in every racist, must be at least part of what the New Testament meant by demonic forces...Racism is that bondage in which whites are free to beat, rape, or kill blacks. About thirty years ago it was acceptable to lynch a black man by hanging him from a tree; but today whites destroy him by crowding him into a ghetto and letting filth and despair put the final touches on death.”

Another central tenant of Black Liberation Theology is the Marxist element.  According to Cone, “The black church cannot remain silent regarding socialism, because such silence will be interpreted by our Third World brothers and sisters as support for the capitalistic system, which exploits the poor all over this earth." He adds that, "We cannot continue to speak against racism without any reference to a radical change in the economic order. I do not think that racism can be eliminated as long as capitalism remains intact.”

Part of Wright’s vision is, “A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.”

Anthony B. Bradley provides and in-depth look at the “Marxist Victimology” imbedded in Black Liberation Theology.  “Black Liberation Theology, originally intended to help the black community, may have actually hurt many blacks by promoting racial tension, victimology, and Marxism which ultimately leads to more oppression.”

One need not look far to see the elements of Black Liberation Theology in the Obama campaign.  Of course Obama has veiled his radical beliefs from the general public.  Of course, who would support a racist Marxist to lead the nation of equality and freedom?