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Liberation Theology: Jesus Christ and the Fight for Human Emancipation

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Liberation Theology - You Don't Play With Martin Luther King Jr

When I got the news that my dear brother Barack Obama, President Obama, was going to put his precious hand on Martin Luther King Jr's Bible, I got upset. And I got upset because you don't play with Martin LutherKing Jr. and you don't playing with his people. Those who wore crimes, Martin Luther King Inc., he died. Or in the three crimes against humanity he was wrestling with. Jim Crow traumatizing, stigmatizing Black people lynching and so forth. Second, carpet bombing in Vietnam, chilling innocent people, especially innocent children. So the righteous indignation of a MLK becomes a moment in political calculations. That makes my blood boil.

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