The brilliant Dr. West shares words of challenge and encouragement with our President.
Dr. West’s note to Obama
Posted byDrew G. I. Hart, PhDPosted inCritical Reflection, Justice, Love, Mercy, Politics, racism, Subdominant Culture, SufferingTags:Barrack Obama, Christianity, culture, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, Love, Missional, obama, Politics, poverty, race, racism
Published by Drew G. I. Hart, PhD
Rev. Dr. Drew G. I. Hart is an associate professor of theology at Messiah University and has 10 years of pastoral experience prior to teaching. He currently directs Messiah University's "Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice" program and co-hosts Inverse Podcast with Jarrod McKenna, an award-winning peace activist from Australia. Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (2016) and Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance (2020). And he is also a co-editor and contributor to the recently published book entitled Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair (Nov. 2023). Hart received bcmPEACE’s 2017 Peacemaker Award, the 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Award in Harrisburg, PA, and most recently in December 2023 Life Esteem Ministries recognized him in Harrisburg with the Harambee Award for the Nguzo Saba Principle of Umoja—Unity for his faith-based activism and public scholarship in the community. Drew and his family live in Harrisburg, PA. View more posts
Drew G. I. Hart 
Very well said. I agreed with 90% of what he said – I just need one thing explained to me – it was a term he used in his speech to Obama “You need progressives behind you like Lincoln had abolitionists”
By “Progressives”
Did he mean those who believe that Big Government is the answer? (that is what the progressive movement has always been about) The Progressive movement has been around forever and it’s antithesis is free-market capitalism. The two can not coexist peacefully. You already see what happens when stimulus moneys are spend to prop up government worker unions. (which is what most of the original stimulus money has gone for and what any further stimulus money (bills) will also be used for) The economy will remain depressed as long as money is taken from those who earn it in the free market and simply given to those in government jobs. How can Dr. West mean that? Progressives will never help the little guy get a job – unless it’s a government job – but that will simply haysin the end of this nation as we know it which Dr. West also seemed to realize is already happening. So, what does he mean?