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Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers.
  • Wright's theology not "new or radical"

    No one can justify bigoted hate preachings. Invoke names of Donna Rice and Flowers and somehow Rev. Wright is a sweet old man. Let's pretend you are correct in this theory and that's what it is a theory. Do you really think we need to go to our Churches and have a cult like pastor teaching us how to damn America, damn white people, insult Senator Clinton and insult me the reader.

    Senator Clinton is an innocent by stander and to add Flowers to the mix somehow takes the burden of poor judgement away from Obama and slam it at Hillary Clinton. When someone is telling you to Goddamn America and you comeback for more, what parts become your own new philosophy carrying the same hate? There is no reasonable explanation for irrational preaching and to compare the words of MLK Jr saying the same words is NO justification, Dr. King was as wrong for damning America.. This is my country and I am proud of it. I wear a flag pin and a pin of the twin towers as a reminder of those who damned America on 9/11/01. This sort of justification is irrational as the bigot preacher and no comparisons will change the dynamic of the Rev Jeremiah Wrights hatred of America or Obama's devotion to Wright for two decades. Slavery was abolished too many years ago to use it as an excuse for the 21st century. We don't liberate people teaching hate, we liberate people teaching them love and forgiveness. I am a Catholic and I have never heard an inappropriate word from my priest. As for Flowers, who cares? Obama's negatives are running high, Hillary's life is open and exhausted.