. . . "James Cone has written extensively about the second example, lynching, in his book God of the Oppressed and most notably in his landmark lecture, ???The Cross and the Lynching Tree.??? He spoke quite directly, in a Bill Moyers interview from a few months ago, of how God, in his deliverance of the Israelites, and the sacrifice of his son, is a God who is closest to those who suffer, rather than tho" .