For more on Black Liberation Theology, it is extremely helpful to listen to this interview of James H. Cone on Bill Moyer's Journal. Some quotes include:
"The next step [in racial reconciliation] is to connect with people who also have hope: blacks, whites, Hispanic, all different ages, all different kinds of people. You have to connect and be around and organize with people who have hope."
"... the more you express identity with the community from which you come from if you're black, the more fear white people have. Now, that's not true for Italians. That's not true for Germans.... So, if Barack Obama comes out and says, "I'm black and I'm proud of it," well, whites would get nervous. And they would be careful about whether they would vote for him. So, he has a narrow, a narrow-- road in which to walk...."
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