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<blockquote data-quote="Thebrownblob" data-source="post: 6092341" data-attributes="member: 60485">I don’t really see any good reason to listen to a racist, spew his propaganda, and pretend he’s a Christian.“He is best known for his advocacy of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_theology" target="_blank">black theology</a> and black <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology" target="_blank">liberation theology</a>. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Powerprovided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Cone#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmore1999234-17" target="_blank">[17]</a> His message was that Black Power defined as black people asserting the humanity that <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" target="_blank">white supremacy</a> denied, was the gospel in America. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" target="_blank">Jesus</a> came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thebrownblob, post: 6092341, member: 60485"] I don’t really see any good reason to listen to a racist, spew his propaganda, and pretend he’s a Christian. “He is best known for his advocacy of [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_theology']black theology[/URL] and black [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology']liberation theology[/URL]. His 1969 book [I]Black Theology and Black Power[/I]provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Cone#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmore1999234-17'][17][/URL] His message was that Black Power defined as black people asserting the humanity that [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy']white supremacy[/URL] denied, was the gospel in America. [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus']Jesus[/URL] came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus.” [/QUOTE]

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