African-American Intellectuals?

J.A. Rogers, an autodidact who was an African-American freethinker that wrote many self-published books on African-American history, wrote in From "Superman" to Man: "The slogan of the Negro devotee is: Take the world but give me Jesus, and the white man strikes an eager bargain with him." Is this true? Maybe...
The reason I say maybe is because, I recently watched Cornell West on CNN in an interview with Don Lemon and he said he is a Christian and his allegiance is with the cross first and the flag second (I have heard him say this before). I look at him and see an African-American with a PhD and whom is often called an African-American intellectual. Barack Obama went to Columbia and then Harvard, at first he went to Occidental College in California, he is on the crest of being our first African-American president. Michael Dyson is another African-American Intellectual, he is even a Baptist minister (which he has to propagate this doctrine). Therefore, they believe that a virgin became artificial inseminated by a god and had what is the founder of Christianity. They believe that he died and was rose from the dead and went back to heaven in a physical body that could survive leaving our atmosphere into a cold outer space without an astronaut suit, he could breathe and so forth and that he is coming back to get his followers and set up his kingdom. In addition, in order for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to be necessary, there had to be a fall, therefore all of these intellectuals would have to believe that two naked people listened to a talking snake without running away, and was convinced by his argument, ate the fruit and then Jesus saves that day 4000 years later! They all say they're Christians and would have to believe what I wrote. Is this the best of our African-American intellectuals? Why am I the only one who see the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as intellectually irrational, if accepted as literally true, if they don't accept story of the fall and redemption/reconciliation as literally true, then what is a metaphorical Christianity?
I want to read more historical information about W.E.B. Du bios, the great African-American intellectual of the 20th century, before I consider him my hero, but tentatively he is my hero for what he wrote 60 years ago, which is closest to the way I feel. In 1948, a priest wrote to W.E.B. Du Bois asking him whether or not he believed in God. Du Bois replied: "Answering your letter of October 3, may I say: If by `a believer in God,' you mean a belief in a person of vast power who consciously rules the universe for the good of mankind, I answer No; I cannot disprove this assumption, but I certainly see no proof to sustain such a belief, neither in History nor in my personal experience. If on the other hand you mean by 'God' a vague Force which, in some incomprehensible way, dominates all life and change, then I answer, Yes; I recognize such Force, and if you wish to call it God, I do not object." Think about it...