Founder of Black Liberation Theology Dies

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5. I am an older white lady who wlll be

graduating from a progressive, liberal seminary a week from today (that is, if I ever get off the intertubes and finish what's left of my damned work, LOL) and Cone was one of the theological giants I was pleased to be introduced to and to study at length. He ripped the lid off of the mainstream oppressive theologies, exposing their foundations and institutional structures of unbiblical racial superiority, oppression and hate. What a refreshing eye-opening to read biblical texts through his black liberation theology lens. It was one of the many things that has made me a liberation theologian. A tremendous loss in so many ways, but my classmates and professors and I, as well as countless others, remain grateful for his scholarship and his life.