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Article: 'Context,' you say? A guide to the radical theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.(Black Theology and Black Power)(Cover story)
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- May 19, 2008
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WHAT we've got here is failure to contextualize. If nothing else, Jeremiah Wright's defenders and enablers are right about that. To fully understand those "sound bites" and "snippets" calling on God to damn America, accusing the U.S. government of intentionally spreading HIV among blacks, and blaming 9/11 on America's allegedly terrorist history and foreign policy, we do need more context.
Far from exonerating Wright, however, removing those notorious sermon-segments from their endless video loop and firmly placing them in their social, political, historical, and theological context is even more damning (you'll forgive the expression) than the original YouTube videos. The ...
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Article: Black power in the belly of the beast.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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...9780252073946 Black power in the belly of the beast. Ed. by Judson L. Jeffries. U. of Illinois...scholarly material on the Civil Rights movement, but little on the Black Power movement. Here American social scientists fill that gap with essays...
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