If you've not see the Bill Moyers Journal program with theologian James Cone, please view it here. It's a must-see and offers an important and challenging way to view the American experience.
Dr. Cone was a challenging, forceful advocate for what to many Americans will be a new way forward in thinking about race--our republic's self-inflicted wound.
America must face up that we are one community. We-- you know, if anybody in this society-- if anybody is brother and sister to the other, it's black people and white people because there is a-- there is a tussle there that you cannot get out of. It is a-- it is deeply engrained in our relationship to each other in a way that's not with anybody else--
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246 years of slavery.... We have built this country. White people know that. Then, after slavery, segregation and lynching, we still helped built this country. So, it's a history of violence, a history of black people fighting in every American war-- even the Civil War.- James Cone
