black people can view God only through black eyes that behold the brutalities of white racism, therefore to ask them to assume a "higher" identity by denying their blackness is to require them to accept a false identity and reject reality as they know it to be.
             James Evans' approach is notably different from that of Cone, because he starts his theological reflection with a different set of questions, such as "Who are we?" "What does it mean to be black?" and "Where are we going?"
             'Since the first Africans set foot on this soil', said Evans, 'people of African decent have had a singularly unique experience in the new world. They bought with them an inherent philosophical heritage, including a distinctive religious sensibility; they encountered the most brutal form of slavery in human history; and they were introduced to North Atlantic Christianity. Because there was no precedent for the exper
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