It was one thing to say simply that Black Power is the gospel, and quite another to make a credible theological argument for linking the two. No one, not even militant Negro ministers, had even thought about joining Black Power with Jesus.
This does not seem accurate to me. The way that Cone did black theology was new but the idea of Jesus identification of suffering and in particular the suffering of black bodies against white Protestant conceptions of Jesus or theology has earlier expressions like Thurman and shown in the work of Swanson’s Doctrine and Race
