Anti-Islam sentiment blinded Obama to an ally in Wright’s Christianity.
Evidence
It was remarkable if scarcely noted that between March and May 2008 Islamic and Christian liberation theologies came to the fore: by now, anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States was so rampant that few were aware of the irony when, in the act of disowning Islam and allowing it to be demonized, Obama found himself clasped to the bosom of a revolutionary Christian liberation theologian whom the white Christian Zionists that Obama believed (wrongly) he needed on his side in order to win the election found equally frightening. Since Wright’s church had just celebrated Louis Farrakhan, it is fair to say that Islamic liberation theology was never more revolutionary than in Jeremiah Wright’s Christianity. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 582
Categorization
- QUESTION: The claim that Islamic liberation theology lived on inside Black Christian liberation theology is worth probing further — what are the historical transmission lines between Farrakhan’s Islam and Wright’s prophetic Christianity?