I agree that certainly in Rev. Wright's case, he has gone the full Monty of compensating for his light skin and his middle class upbringing by going the James Cone black liberation theology route. Not only does he espouse a theology that says it has no use for the love of God that does not help fight the white enemy, but Wright drips with scorn when he mentions blacks who have left the reservation, whether referring to "Condamnesia" or "Condaskeeza" Rice, or "Tiger swinging his Cablinasian hips" (the transcript says "cap blazin'" but I think that must be a mis-transcription of "Cablinasian", which is what Tiger Woods says when he is asked his race).
For 20 years, Obama was a member of this church that regards white people as enemies and blacks who abandon a racialist identity as traitors. In 2007, Obama donated over $20,000 to the church. In Obama's autobiography, he says that he was moved to tears by Wrights "a world where the white man's greed runs a world in need" sermon, and regarded his stint working for a Fortune 500 company as "going behind enemy lines."
You really have to wonder how Obama feels about America, not the potential perfected America of leftist dreams, but America as it is now, mostly white, mostly capitalist, mostly Protestant country that it is. I do sense an anthropologist's cool bemused detachment. |
