Is it possible to understand what God's love means for the oppressed without making wrath an essential ingredient of that love? What could love possi… - James H. Cone

The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil and good. He decides between the less and the greater evil.

This is the dialectic of Christian thought: God enters into the social context of human existence and appropriates the ideas and actions of the oppressed as his own. When this event of liberation occurs in thought and praxis, the words and actions of the oppressed become the Word and Action of God. They no longer belong to the oppressed. Indeed, the word of the oppressed becomes God’s Word insofar as the former recognize it not as their own but as given to them through divine grace.

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!