It's because the prophetic black church tradition has been filtered into an unthreatening form suitable for public consumption, so that it has been rendered, in Wright's word .
The cult members were not just unthreatening in life, they were mild in death.
Once again they face a Republican nominee who supports abortion restrictions yet is widely viewed as moderate and unthreatening to pro-choice voters.
TBS Just For Laughts: David Cross & Pals David Cross isn’t afraid to be abrasive. His generally unthreatening physical presence hides a soul eager for social anarchy.
June 15, 2013 - CBS Chicago
Rush Limbaugh in StarNewsOnline.com Mr. Limbaugh said that it was inspired by an opinion column in The Los Angeles Times by a black writer, David Ehrenstein, who likened Mr. Obama to "warm and unthreatening" black figures like the actors Sidney Poitier and Morgan Freeman.
David Sloan Wilson in Newswise (press release) When evolution is presented as unthreatening, explanatory, and useful, it can be easily grasped and appreciated by most people, regardless of their religious or political beliefs and without previous training,says Wilson.
Tina Brown in Melbourne Herald Sun Dodi was the perfect antidote,says Brown, "charming, sexually attentive, intellectually unthreatening and temporary."