Responses to the Wright fiasco, Race, and Theology

This page was originally designed as a list reflections on Liberation theology, Jeremiah Wright, James Cone, Barack Obama, and the media fiasco. I emphasized the posts I believe to be the most important for a time. Numerically the list ended with the most recent. I will leave this page up as is. However I have since done other posts on liberation theology and race not specific to Wright, often with quotes or clarifications that I think would be helpful, particularly for those who have very little exposure, much less truthful exposure to liberation theology and race. And so I recommend that the reader follow this link to posts on race.

20. Cornel West’s Hope on a Tightrope, Pt. 2: More quotes I came across that I liked quite a lot or thought important.

19. Cornel West’s Hope on a Tightrope, Pt. 1: Some quotes I came across that I liked quite a lot or thought important.

18. Bodies, Correlation, and Explaining Liberation Theology: An explanation of what Liberation theology concerns itself with.

17. On Father Pfleger and the Fall Out: A link to catholicanarchy’s post about Father Pfleger and Obama resigning, from the BBC.

16. What We Ain’t Doing: On the need to speak of race and gentrification in the church.

15. Politics and Faith in North Carolina: Gregory Jones, dean of Duke’s divinity school, J. Kameron Carter, professor at Duke, and William Barber II, president of North Carolina’s NAACP, are interviewed on their local tv station.

14. Wright, Cone, Dorrien, and the New York Times: Noting a decent piece on liberation theology in the New York Times and a short notation on Catholic Liberation theology and the belief, or lack thereof, of the United States government introducing AIDs into the black community.

13. Reflecting on Wright: Towards a Negative Theology of Wright: A reflection on what Wright is not: a crazy person, a man with “issues”, or a reverse racist.

12. Wright was on Moyers: The video of Wright being interviewed on Moyer’s Journal.

11. Cone on NPR: Pointing to an interview of Cone on NPR.

10. Cone and Carter: Reflecting on the need to understand Cone in order to understand Carter.

9. Understanding Wright by Understanding Cone (2): Cone Explained — How the Media, Politicos, and Others Like Them are Stupid as a Brick and Got it All Wrong: Explaining the significance of Tillichian symbolism in Cone’s work, how one should rightly understand what Cone does say, and a link to Carter’s critique.

8. Carter on Obama: Citing J. Kameron Carter’s response to Obama’s speech.

7. Understanding Wright by Understanding Cone (1): Black Liberation Theology from Cone: A very short introduction to reading Cone.

6. Wright’s Sermon: A longer video of Dr. Wright’s sermon where he utters the infamous phrase “God damn America.”

5. A Humble Suggestion: Suggesting a book along the title of Religion Still Matters for Cornel West.

4. Cone on CNN?: A rumor that hasn’t seemed to have panned out unfortunately.

3. Obama, Race, and Theology: A theological analysis of Obama’s speech.

2. Talking about Obama and His Church: A friend and I talking about the possibilities of a having a president who has been exposed to liberation theology.

1. Cone on Moyers: James Cone was interviewed on Moyer’s Journal. This is the place to start, which interestingly, was months before the Wright videos emerged.