Where was God in these agonizing deaths? “Likely there ain’t no God at all,” said Jim in Cullen’s The Black Christ, for “God, if He was, kept to His skies, and left us to our enemies.” What is the meaning of a lynched victim’s cry of “Why me, Oh, Lord! What did I do to deserve this?” and Jesus’ excruciating cry of abandonment, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mk 15:34 KJV).
