Sorry to see Glenn Beck back off this.

“Chris Wallace pulled a Tim Russert go-to-the-videotape, contrasting Beck’s high-toned religious rhetoric Saturday with his July 2009 statement on “Fox and Friends” that Obama harbored a “deep-seated hatred” for white people.

“It shouldn’t have been said; it was poorly said; I have a big fat mouth sometimes, and I say things … and that’s not the way people should behave, and it was not accurate,” Beck said, adding that what he picked up from Obama wasn’t racism — but a commitment to ‘Liberation Theology,’ a movement that stresses responsibility of religious people to help the poor and oppressed.

“I don’t want to retract — I want to amend. I think it’s much more of a theological question. … Read his own books, he writes about the white culture and how he struggled with it, etc., etc. I didn’t understand really his theological viewpoints come from Liberation Theology; that’s what I think at the gut level I was sensing, and I miscast it as racism.”

But it is. At it’s deepest core. Beck refers to Liberation Theology, but Obama’s background is in Black Liberation Theology and there is a world of difference between it and Liberation Theology.

To the point, all racism is grounded in many ways to religion. White supremacists are fond of using the Bible and Christianity to cloak their racism against blacks and others of color. An amazing stretch given that none of the characters of the Bible, including Jesus were Caucasian.

Racist blacks use religion in the same way. Louis Farrakhan uses the Quran to hurl racist statements towards “White Devils”, and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright uses Black Liberation Theology to underscore racism towards whites. Two of the most racist of blacks, Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson both hide their anti-semitism and racism against whites behind a religious title, “Reverend”

On the surface Black Liberation Theology, a hybrid of Liberation Theology appears quite harmless, but when you dig deeper you find as much racism as you do in any of Farrakhan’s writings.

“.. Black Liberation Theology, is a racist, black supremacist and revolutionary belief system, which sanctions the violent overthrow of constitutional democracy in the United States and revolution against the wealthy, white ‘oppressor’ nations. Whites are seen as satanic and the manifestation of the Antichrist and collectively guilty of crimes against non-white peoples. The black race is held to be the manifestation of God on Earth. Violent acts against whites are sanctioned. The document at the link below contains disturbing excerpts from James H. Cone’s first two books on Black Liberation Theology”

Whether Barack Obama is a racist is a matter of judgment. According to his own words, written in his own books, and twenty years sitting without objection under the teaching of Jeremiah Wright who espoused it’s tenants, one could make that argument very strong.

To the point many blacks are indeed racist against whites, some violently so, and yes blacks can be racist. To those who say it is justified based on the sins of whites in the past the answer is no racism is justified. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Beck’s statement that Obama was racist may have been rash, but was a needed statement because it brings to light these very facts which cannot be swept away and beg questions that we still do not have answered about Barack Obama.