Michael Benson (MiCo)

17in x 25in

In collection of Dr. Stephen Ray Jr.

(A Tribute to Rev. Dr. James Hal Cone – August 5, 1936 – April 28, 2018)

“And when it was all finished,

I felt the Wind.

Coming as a mighty roar,

Crying, My God! My God! …” 

Poem by MiCo

“Until we can see the cross and the lynching tree together, until we can identify Christ with a “recrucified” black body hanging from a lynching tree, there can be no genuine understanding of Christian identity in America, and no deliverance from the brutal legacy of slavery and white supremacy.”

“I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light…”

James Cone – The Cross and the Lynching Tree