On Sunday, Senator Barack Obama announced that as President he would expand President Bush’s program to assist faith-based social service organizations, with his own twist on the program of course.  But one statement he made particularly caught my attention: “But my experience in Chicago showed me how faith and values could be an anchor in my life.”  Everyone should remember that those Chicago values Sen. Obama likes to talk about are rooted in the racist and Marxist principles of Black Liberation Theology.

The hate-filled mindset of someone rooted in Black Liberation Theology has been seen all across the nation in the ranting of Sen. Obama’s long-time pastor and close personal friend, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Stanley Kurtz of the National Review gives a brief history of Wright at Trinity United in his overview of Black Liberation Theology.  Trinity was formed by the United Church of Christ with the intent to be a fully integrated church.  As Trinity wrestled with the Black Community’s quest for empowerment post 1968, the church decided to seek a more integrated relationship with the Black Community and Black forms of worship.

“Although Trinity had brought on Wright with change in mind, the original congregants were not prepared for the extremes to which Wright's "Africentrism" and black-liberation theology would take him. Wright arrived in 1972, and by 1975 nearly all of the members who had originally invited him had left.”

“Trinity was accused of being a cult (only three months after Jim Jones and Jonestown!) and Wright of having an 'ego problem.'”

As I mentioned previously, Wright would go on to form Trinity United around Dr. James Cone’s book Black Power and Black Theology, which states, “If God is not for us and against White people, then He is a murderer, and we had better kill Him.”

Wright also mirrors Cone’s Marxist sentiments in his 1988 sermon “Audacity to Hope” (the influence for the title of Obama’s book) when he attacks “white America's corporate dollars that hold and pull the purse strings of so many national black organizations" turning middle-class blacks into "slaves."

Dr. James Cone is a man who spews racial hatred every time I’ve heard him speak.  Remember that Cone is the architect of Black Liberation Theology, the publicly stated guiding force behind the beliefs of Trinity United Church of Christ, where Barack Obama has sat for the last twenty years.

In a lecture at the Divinity School of Harvard University, Cone explained his version of Christianity in Black Liberation Theology:

“No American Christian…can understand correctly the full theological meaning of the American Christ without identifying his image with the re-crucified black body hanging from the lynching tree.”

During an interview with Trinity Institute's Bob Scott, Cone expanded on this sentiment saying, “If the powerful in our society, the White people, if they want to become Christians, they have to give up that power and identify with the powerless if they want to become a Christian…If you’re identifying with the victim…you have to pay back that which you took…and White people took a lot from Black people.”

Cone went on in the Harvard lecture to say that, “Black preachers took a White gospel, designed to enslave Black people, and transformed it into a Black liberating gospel of Jesus.”

Cone blames America for modern day “lynching” of Black people seen in the high number of Blacks in prisons.  “Through private prisons, Whites have turned the brutality of a racist legal system into a profit making venture.”  Cone explained to Bill Moyers:

“That's what the ghetto does. It crams people into living spaces where they will self destruct, kill each other, fight each other, shoot each other because they have no place to breathe, no place for recreation, no place for an articulation and expression of their humanity. So, it becomes a way, a metaphor for lynching, if lynching is understood and as one group forcing a kind of inhumanity upon another group.”

Cone tried to explain to Moyers and Scott that White supremacy is what causes Blacks to end up in prison.  Neither interviewer asked the obvious question, “Doesn’t their choice to commit crimes cause them to end up in prison?”  Every individual, after all, does have the freedom to make their own decisions, and be rewarded or punished based upon those choices.  Cone’s assertion that Blacks have “no place to breathe” must not take into account the free schools, libraries, and museums in every city in the country.

Cone explains White supremacy to Scott in saying, “White supremacy is white people making all the rules and regulations by which this country is defined.  There is one black Senator…there is only one.  That’s White supremacy.  There is a, uh, you know, nine Supreme Court justices, all them white as far as I’m concerned, one may look black, but he’s white.”

Cone’s vision, embodied in the belief structure of Trinity United Church of Christ, cannot logically be justified, or labeled anything but a racist and anti-American ideology of hate.

 If I, as a White person, attended KKK meetings every Sunday for twenty years, and had a close personal relationship with the Grand Wizard, no one in their right mind would believe I wasn’t a racist just because I gave a few eloquent speeches.  That the media and the public have allowed Barack Obama to slither away from this issue is completely astounding. 

Black Liberation Theology in no way fits into the American principles of justice, morality, and freedom spoken about by the Framers.  A man like Barack Obama should never be allowed any elected office in America, especially that of President.