1) No I was not talking about liberation theology. The language that Wright uses is pretty standard for people that experience oppression. Remember Katrina?
2)Who thinks Black people are the only ones that are oppressed in America? When or who have said otherwise? I certainly know that there are many large communities that are oppressed according to gender,class and sexual preference to name just a few. Did you know that the Black Panthers attempted to organize poor Whites in Appalachia in the 70s? Or that Black and White farmers tried to found a polictical party in Oklahoma to empower rural America? American history is full of examples where White reached out to Black, Blacks reached out to Whites, Native American, Latinons. However what I find interesting is that you bring up White class oppresion as an excuse to dismiss and invalidate legit criticisms of the disenfranchisement of Blacks in this country. The sad things that have been happening in Appalachia does not justify what has been happening to Black all over the country. That point you try to make by brining up Oprah Winfrey and the Super tanker named after C.R.is quite ridiculous. Black people are still pulled over in much higher number, are wrongfully on death row in greater numbers etc etc. I recently saw a study that employers would rather employ a White excon with no college education than a Black applicant with a College degree. And Hurricane Katrina? Do you think if the media hadn't presented that as a Black disaster. Naming the few exceptions does not signify anything.
I brought up liberation theology because Wright says he follows James Cone. The idea of black equalling oppressed is part of that discussion. Not all black people are oppressed. And not only black people are oppressed. I am not trying to downplay legitimate discussions of disenfranchisement of black people. Certainly there is still plenty to talk aobut there. But I am trying to further rational discussion divorced from the hyperbole I see in the writings of Cone.
