Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama’s pastor, conducted his marriage ceremony, and baptised his children. Obama then said he was unaware of the pastor’s viewpoints that were espoused in a church setting, saying (emphasis mine):

But the sermons I’ve always heard were no different than the sermons you hear in many African-American churches. I had not heard him make such, what I consider to be objectionable remarks from the pulpit. Had I heard them while I was in church, I would have objected. Had that been the tenor of the church generally, I probably wouldn’t be a member of the church.

Jeremiah Wright’s mentor was a man by the name of James Cone. An excerpt of Dr. Cone’s book is below (again, emphasis mine):

Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

The talking points from Obama’s church’s website state (emphasis mine):

One of the biggest gaps in knowledge that causes the kind of ignorance that you hear spouted by this man [Erik Rush] and those like him, has to do with the fact that these persons are completely ignorant when it comes to the Black religious tradition. 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.

And the aforementioned mission statement reads:

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.The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:

• A congregation committed to ADORATION.
• A congregation preaching SALVATION.
• A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
• A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
• A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
• A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
• A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
• A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
• A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
• A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.

Does anyone see an issue with this theology and Obama’s claims of ignorance? It seems to me that the tenor of the church is based in its very own mission statement, which in its own words are rooted in the Black Liberation Theology.

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