THE CROSS AND THE LYNCHING TREE    2 OF THE MOST  EMOTIONALLY CHARGED   SYMBOLS IN  THE BLACK  COMMMUNITIES//THEOLOGIAN  JAMES  H. CONE  EXPLORES THE SYMBOLS AND THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK//JESUS ON THE CROSS  AND BLACK  PEOPLE LYNCHED   WERE  BOTH  BEING DISPLAYED//NOT A BIBLE READER.WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS,WAS THERE  CELEBRATING   /BLACK MEN LYNCHED   ,THERE ARE  PICTURES  OF THE  KLAN   AND  THE KLAN  CROWD  CELEBRATING////SOME OF THE  PREACHERS ARE AS BAD  AS THE  ROMANS  ARE WHOEVER  PUT  CHRIST ON THE CROSS///NOT A BIBLE READER,SOME CHRISTIANS AND PREACHERS  DO  NOT READ THE  BIBLE EITHER.//// .BIBLE DOES NOT SAY COLOR OF CHRIST,BLACK PREACHERS  CONTROLLED BY GREED  PROFIT  SAY  HE IS,  WHITE,/SPIRIT OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING  IS  NOT  IN  BLACK,  CHURCHES/BLACK  PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY  CONFINED,ENSLAVED   BY  BLACK,  PREACHERS////...

Yeah James H. Cone is a scholar more people should be familiar with.  Interestingly I only learned about his work as a result of AALBC.com a couple of years ago Cone published The Cross and the Lynching Tree. 

 

Thanks for the reminder Harry.

 

According to the original manuscripts and translations of the New Testament Jesus wasn't nailed to a cross.

He was hung on a tree.

In other words he was lynched by the Roman authorities.

The cross didn't become a Christian symbol until Constantine made it so centuries later.