James Cone, father of Black Liberation Theology: “When whites undergo the true experience of conversion wherein they die to whiteness and are reborn anew in order to struggle against white oppression and for the liberation of the oppressed,” 1/6

“there is a place for them in the black struggle of freedom. Here reconciliation becomes God’s gift of blackness through the oppressed of the land. But it must be made absolutely clear that it is the black community that decides both the authenticity of white conversion” 2/6

“and also the part these converts will play in the black struggle for freedom. The converts can have nothing to say about the validity of their conversion experience or what is best for the community or their place in it, except as permitted by the oppressed community itself” 3/6

“. . . White converts, if there are any to be found, must be made to realize that they are like babies who have barely learned to walk and talk. . . . They must be told when to speak and what to say, otherwise they will be excluded from our struggle. . . “ 4/6

“Unless whites can get every single black person to agree that reconciliation is realized, there is no place whatsoever for white rhetoric about the reconciling love of blacks and whites. . . “ 5/6

“Just because we work with them and sometimes worship alongside them should be no reason to claim that they are truly Christians and thus part of our struggle.” 6/6