RSSBlack Liberation Theology in Action?
Gene Lalor | November 16, 2009
“Black Liberation Theology,” 
is a term supposedly coined by James H. Cone who actually glommed it from the South American Marxist “Liberation Theology” movement of the fifties.
Cone synthesized his American meaning when he said, “The Christian faith has been interpreted largely by those who enslaved black people, and by the people who segregated them.” It goes far beyond a disaffection with Christianity.
As one observer wrote, it is “a product of the dreary, leftist politics of the twentieth century” to which “Militancy is important. It’s the sword dangled over the head of society. Either fork over more tax dollars, government services and patronage or else. . . [under threat of} Civil unrest. Disruptions in cities. Riot in the streets:” http://bit.ly/4EYouE.
Sound familiar? It should. We have witnessed that civil unrest, that militancy, those disruptions, those riots for decades. They are intrinsic to black liberation and civil rights movements. Ironically, they are often promulgated from the pulpits of supposedly Christian churches.
Two recent race-tinged stories may reflect a very feasible relationship to Black Liberation Theology follow:
ONE: The following dialogue is fabricated. The facts of the incident–involving 3 people in a Harlem bar, a black man, a white woman, and a white man–are not.
Black Man: “Don’t you think that white privilege has gone on long enough in this country?”
White woman: “What exactly do you mean by ‘white privilege?’ “
“You know goddamned well what I mean! Now I’ll show you some black privilege!”
With that, a 59 year old Columbia University prof hauled off and sucker-punched the white woman in the face and then for good measure took a swing at the white man who intervened.
As reported by the New York Post, the black man, Professor Lionel MacIntyre, 
and the white woman, Ms. Camille Davis, had been involved a racial disagreement a few weeks earlier. Last Friday, it ignited into a “fiery discussion” at the bar, Toast.
MacIntyre concluded that chat by shoving and punching Davis and then by attempting to land one on the white man, Shannon, when the latter said, “You don’t hit a woman.”
I guess MacIntyre feels somehow entitled to punch out anyone who disagrees with him, especially when the punchees are white and dispute “white privilege” in the Age of Obama.
As Shannon described the melee, “The punch came out of nowhere. Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing about it–apparently I wasn’t doing enough.”
Evidently, nor was Ms. Davis.
A waiter described the assault as “a real sucker punch” adding, “Camille’s a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn’t deserve anything like this.”
Evidently, Mac felt she did.
After being tossed out of Toast, Mac was arrested when Davis–wisely, to perhaps forestall future sucker punches if she again asserts her rights to free speech– pressed charges. He subsequently apologized, sort of, by saying, “It was a very unfortunate event. I didn’t mean for it to explode the way it did:” http://bit.ly/10T6zP
“Unfortunate,” Professor? That puts assault into the same category as Ms. Davis breaking a leg or contracting H1N1. Your explosion was more than unfortunate for your victims.
The question is: Was Mac merely exercising his rights under the dogma of Black Liberation Theology by attacking “white privilege” and Ms. Davis?
One would think that an African-American who had achieved the position of a professorship at one of America’s most prestigious universities would not be so obsessed with white privileges. He obviously should be enjoying his own black privilege.
However, equally obvious is that he is not, perhaps with a mind to fellow blacks imprisoned due to their crimes, unemployed due to their lack of skills and education, or impoverished due to a lack of ambition, or for having given birth to illegitimate offspring who are destined to repeat that sad cycle.
I know that’s harsh to say but it’s also factual even if few, blacks or whites, want to confront those issues.
Prior to reinterpreting scripture to conform with liberation ideologies, blacks must first make sincere efforts to address their self-inflicted problems.
If that be racist, so too is Bill Cosby a racist. Of all people, the esteemed Professor MacIntyre should acknowledge his race’s need to repair itself before attacking defenseless women because they disagree with him.
TWO: The riotous food fight in “Animal House” has to be one of the funniest scenes in the movie, with Bluto, John Belushi, providing the bulk of the laughs–and the food. Food fights in America’s secondary schools have long been fairly common, a rite of passage for some kids, but when such antics result in injury during the chaos, and when a food fight story is picked up by the Paper of Record, the staid New York Times, it becomes something else again.
On the Calumet middle-school campus of Perspectives Charter Schools, in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, the adolescent food fight hi-jinx resulted in the arrest for “reckless conduct” of 25 eleven to fifteen year olds after the school called for reinforcements: http://bit.ly/2WShM5.
Few specifics were made public in The Times’ story. One can only imagine the extent of the anarchic disorder that prompted school officials to resort to police backup after lunch trays flew, oranges flew, and 3 students sustained injuries.
Unlike the Harlem Toast story, the Calumet tale lacks an interracial component. According to Wikipedia, the Gresham area of Chicago’s South side is 98.1% black. It’s also, maybe not coincidentally, home to the mostly-African-American St. Sabina’s parish where Father Michael Pfleger reigns as pastor.
Pfleger, a self-loathing white man and comrade-in-arms of the notorious former pastor and guiding light for the Obama family, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of “God damn America” fame, is probably the most radical Catholic priest in America.
Referred to by Michelle Malkin as “Obama’s white cheerleader,” he has conspired with other black supremacists such as Prof. Cornel West, Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, and the Reverend Blowhards, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
In addition to his socially-extremist activities, Pfleger has a history of unseemly defiance.
Years ago, his boss, Cardinal Joseph Patrick Cody, threatened to fire him for adopting two young boys. Cody never followed through. The two boys and a later foster child, another boy, lived with Pfleger in the parish rectory.
No further comment on that issue is needed.
He was also chastised for a racist-political diatribe mocking Hillary Clinton and praising Barack Obama during last year’s primary campaign. He delivered the rant at Wright’s Trinity United Church. See the diatribe here: http://bit.ly/ZAOdx
Allegedly pro-life, Pfleger has endorsed a number of political advocates of both abortion and homosexual marriage and has offered his pulpit to the likes of Farrakhan 
and Sharpton: http://bit.ly/3bJez7.
There’s no way of knowing how many of Calumet’s children are parishioners of Father Pfleger’s church but his radical, racist teachings of Black Liberation Theology could very well have played a part in their violent defiance of authority.
If you’re an 11-15 year old black kid who has been infused with that “theology’s” teachings of, dare I say, black privilege supplanting white privilege in America, why not take a cafeteria food fight to all new levels of chaos?
Hey, if a black, male university professor is entitled to sock a female because she holds a different viewpoint than he, why can’t black kids violently protest a middle school’s cafeteria staff serving stale burgers or brown broccoli?
After all, they too have had enough of white privilege and may want more hog jawls, spicy matoke, and smoked okra on their menus.
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