The Jew and the Negro

It is not without significance that Cone spends a lot of time discussing the power Negro Spirituals (which famously impressed Bonhoeffer when he taught in New York).

Here is Paul Robeson singing a Hasidic Jewish chant that speaks very much to the concerns of Black Liberation Theology. Dare I say it is Black Liberation Theology, which can, of course, only be sung.

 

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One Response to The Jew and the Negro

  1. Jeremy says:

    Paul Robeson was a revolutionary. You know you’re doing something right when all of America hates you.

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