Is Barack Hussein Obama “The Man?” Or is he “The Omen?” Is he “The One?” Or is he Neo? The Shadow knows. Seriously.
I always thought the fundamental question facing America—White America—this presidential election cycle would boil down to a question of whether or not America—White America—could accept its salvation if it meant that the “Savior” had to be a Black man? Would Americans—White Americans—vote their best interests, or would they, blinded by racism vote for their own doom, because they just could not support a Black man in that office?
But that’s just part of the picture. Now, I have discovered, there are some militant (White) “U.S. Christians who regard the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people,” so said columnist Robert D. Novak on May 12, 2008. And in late June conservative Christians openly challenged Sen. Obama’s biblical interpretations.
What Bible are those Christians reading?
The prospective presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, just might be a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people? Where is that? I guess it’s near the chapter and verse where it says a slave is supposed to love his Master more than he loves himself.
In 1831, the Terrorist Nat Turner understood that same Bible very differently. He was in Southhampton, Virginia, and to him the Bible said that on a certain day he should rise up and lead his followers to murder their slavemasters and seize their freedom by force of arms. Same Bible. That’s the Bible (coincidentally) I believe in. The one that says the slaves will be set free! That Black Liberation Theology. Same Bible. Continue reading ‘Is Obama ‘The Man’ or ‘The Omen?’’
