The late mentor of Raphael Warnock, pastor and one of Georgia’s Democratic candidates for US Senate, had advocated for the
“destruction of everything white” and
demonized white Christians as “satanic.”
James Hal Cone, who passed away in 2018, was a pastor, professor, and passionate defender of
“black liberation theology,” which he outlined in his 1969 book
“poignant and powerful voice” of high
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Cone has a Wikipedia page that describes his black liberation theology:
His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in America. Jesus came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus. Cone’s work was influential from the time of the book’s publication, and his work remains influential today. His work has been both used and critiqued