Analysis Of The Cross And The Lynching Tree By James Cone

Introduction and Thesis: As one who comes from a non-American background, with not enough knowledge of African American history, other than few course readings including James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree, there have been unanswered questions in my mind pertaining to the background of atrocities and injustice that take place in the United States of America, in the name of racial and ethnic differences. While growing up in Pakistan, I had been quite unaware of the main-stream and sub-cultures in the U.S, especially the idea about viewing a person from another race as “different” or inferior to oneself. One of the primary reasons for that is the Indian sub-continent has been predominated by the Hindu religion that even after experiencing

This conversation can help the reader in understanding what it means to for international viewers on both ends, the east and the west, respectively, to observe realities differently, as well as their opinions to be viewed differently. For a Pakistani Muslim and a Pakistani Sikh viewer, news about racial bias would primarily deal with person from another religion and nationality. On the other hand, news about Christian persecution in Pakistan might not hold the same significance for an African American, because this news does not deal with any race, rather religion- in this context, it is the religion that is racialized. Additionally, viewers of the international and national media have a different mind-set, that is the values lived out by these audiences can have a cultural approach, often referred to as the cultural lenses. One can categorize these audiences to have a min-set such as the fundamentalist, conservative, religious, secular, Asian, western and eastern. The unasked question in both contexts is: why do people on both ends, the east and the west respectively, do not feel much disturbed about the sufferings of their other brothers and sisters? It is because the news has reached them in a way that is introduced with a different caption or a headline, and that bias against persons of another race, ethnicity or religion, has

In this regard, the doctrines of the Christian faith are used as the main source to claim that a Muslim must evangelize about Islam to the kafir because they need salvation-the word kafir means infidel. The bias against Christianity is mainly because of the doctrine of God that God is a Triune God and Jesus Christ was born by a virgin. Since the belief about Christianity as a religion of three gods and bias against the Jews is instilled in the mind of Pakistani Muslims, that tend to be extremely religious minded, the attitude is strictly fundamentalist-Pakistani Muslims often view a person from another faith as “less human” and “not deserving equal respect” because in this context, not only a “white American” is viewed as the reason of the Pakistani girl’s killing, but the “white” person is believed to be a “Christian.” In other words, the killer of the assassinated girl is perceived to be a threat to the global Muslim community. Most importantly, the reason of such bias is “America’s War on Terror,” that the Pakistani Muslims view as an agenda that supports to kill Muslims. Additionally, the U.S. President, Mr. Donald Trump’s words “I think Islam hates us” stirs the Islamic fundamentalist minds to such an extent that America’s action of War on Terror is