However, Cone came to understand that the use of God –language did not necessarily mean that white supremacy was referring to the God of the oppressed. Therefore, the divine of the oppressor was not the same God of the oppressed revealed in scriptures. Jesus was sent to release the captives and set the oppressed free from their oppressors solidifying Cone’s theological stance of Black Theology of Liberation. However, Cone’s stance did not evolve out of a vacuum. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were among the thousands murdered in seeking justice for African
However, Cone came to understand that the use of God –language did not necessarily mean that white supremacy was referring to the God of the oppressed. Therefore, the divine of the oppressor was not the same God of the oppressed revealed in scriptures. Jesus was sent to release the captives and set the oppressed free from their oppressors solidifying Cone’s theological stance of Black Theology of Liberation. However, Cone’s stance did not evolve out of a vacuum. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were among the thousands murdered in seeking justice for African