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The First Black President is a critical and passionate reflection on the political and historical implications of an Obama administration concerning the issue of race in America. Obama's rise to political power has forever changed the contours of race relations in the country as many hail the new age of a \"post-racial\" society. Yet, an Obama presidency could further complicate real racial progress and could set race relations back in the country for decades to come if not viewed in the proper context. The book demonstrates that the Obama presidency must be celebrated as a historical triumph based on America's racist past, but also the struggle for equality, justice and freedom must also intensify with recognition of its global consequences. The problem of race in America no longer just affects American citizens but impacts cultures around the globe. The book speaks to both optimists and pessimists alike who are struggling to understand how race factors into the domestic and international policy agenda of Obama who now sits in the highest seat of political and global power. --BOOK JACKET.

In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism.The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating militarism, genocide, and housing.

Accepting the notion of racialized language as a given, this volume seeks to answer two questions: \"What is at stake in maintaining or challenging the religio-political narrative in America?\" and \"What is the role of patriotic or prophetic discourse in the United States after September 11, 2001?\" The authors select sermons by Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright to as a framework to examine the meaning of God in America as part of the formational religio-political narrative of the country.

As a theologian teaching at a historically black college in the Deep South, just miles from the tragic massacre of nine black folk at the Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, SC, what I see on the horizon is a quickening of the children of the enslaved. I see a growing awareness of a generation of black and brown souls, part of the post‐civil rights generation, who are calling into question the legitimacy of American democracy and its systems. I see a generation becoming much more aware of the brutality of the slave past and what it means in the present moment. There is an awakening. This generation is beginning to see that they are the children of the enslaved, ready to claim the full weight of freedom, justice, and human dignity.

Hill brings two of the most prominent theologians of our time, Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu, into conversation to explore the meaning of the Christian ideas of reconciliation, multiculturalism, and social justice for today's world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of King and Tutu's theology with implications for contemporary issues.

This study is concerned with the manner in which the Christian idea of reconciliation was developed in modernity and represented chiefly in individualistic and pietistic terms. The Enlightenment and Nineteenth Century Protestant theology, in its preoccupation with autonomy and rationality, postulated an interpretation of the Christian idea of reconciliation that neglects the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of the human experience. As a corrective, I analyze and compare the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Desmond Mpilo Tutu, specifically as it relates to the Christian idea of reconciliation. Using historical and textual methodologies, I assume the deconstructive task of exploring how reconciliation was developed in modernity. I employ the insights of J. Deotis Roberts, Paul Lehmann and the Biblical narrative to show that reconciliation is also a process of liberation and expands to the social, political and economic locals of human life. Secondly, I take a comprehensive look at the life and thought of King and Tutu, viewing their work as exemplars of reconciliation with a corrective focus on liberation and community. The idea of the 'beloved community' in King's thought and Tutu's 'ubuntu' theology, I argue, provides an important perspective and expression of the salvific activity of God in Christ as the Apostle Paul describes in II Corinthians 5:18-20. Subsequent chapters include: a critical analysis of King and Tutu's theology, and a comparison of their thought in chapter four; and implications for King and Tutu's thought in Chapter five. The study found that King and Tutu, in unique ways, significantly advances an understanding of the Christian idea of reconciliation that emphasizes community, and liberation in terms of equality in the economic, political and social spheres. The final chapter explores the implications of King and Tutu's thought in light of contemporary issues related to globalization, technology, as well as racial, ethnic and religious difference.