He stated that God should not bless but damn America until America lived up to its rhetoric and doctrine of freedom and justice for all. Black liberation theology is about the practice of freedom for marginalized peoples, making black folks the center of the argument’s gravity. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strikes law and then wants us to sing “God Bless America.” No, no, no, not God bless America; God damn America... for killing innocent people. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme. Jeremiah Wright is a weaver, in the mode of Anansi, and his “God damn America” is not the search for emancipation within the given political order.

Source: Huffington Post December 19, 2018 21:11 UTC