Colour Prejudice
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. We think it requires troublesome work to undertake the dashing of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong.

We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different....... (for example) the historically incorrect white dieties like the white Jesus.

In our neighborhoods we don't see the true African image of Jesus hanging in our stain glass windows and home.....what a shame. It's not good enough to merely 'paint' Jesus face from white to Black, that's why history is best qualified to reward our research. We could be totally different Christians if we start reading OUR historical perspective. We wonder why our children are such liars, heck we start them out with lies from day one. Whereas color prejudice did exist early in the Christian church; color connotation, equating black with sin and white with purity, existed previously. Yet, it was not until the 15th century, when the Atlantic slave trade under the Portuguese, that racism began to emerge in its most deadly theological, philosophical, and scientific forms. Not long after the first slaves were taken from Africa by Europeans, Pope Julius II in 1505 commissioned the painting of certain biblical works from artist Michelangelo and in doing so initiated the concept of God as being White. Included in the painting is the portrait of Mary, mother of Jesus, whose prominent Black features were distorted to resemble a Florentine Italian women. Likewise, in the Michelangelo paintings, the images of the Christ child, the three wise men, the Lord's supper and the Resurrection, were changed until no trace of their original Blackness remained. The artist frequently used his family members (aunt, uncle, nephew) for the Biblical subjects that were mistakenly taken for the true images even to this very day. In the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the artist's uncle portrays God....can you believe that? Remember that images shape our reality. Ask any Catholic clergyman about Pope Julius II and see how much they know. Let history teach us that during the time of Michelangelo, the African slave trade was beginning to reach its pinnacle. In other words, the Europeans knew that they couldn't enslave us and maintain a Black Messiah at the same time. They had to bring a white image of Jesus on the scene to enslave us!!! Unfortunately, most of us have submitted to this image without any resistance...what a shame. If Jesus were to come back today and say, "I'm back and I'm Black!", I guarantee that millions of white Christians would convert to Judaism on the spot! White biblical scholars have always distorted the truth of Jesus' origins. He was not born in Bethlehem, he was born in a cave in Ethiopia. Emperor Constantine deliberately changed his birth location to Bethlehem, you can go to any library and you'd find this out. Even if one claims it was Bethlehem, you still can't get around the man's ethnicity.....Realize, at this juncture in history, they didn't use vowels in their scripts. The ancient scholars had to guess where the vowels were placed. Let's take a look at the root origin of the word Bethlehem.... BETHEL = House of God HEM = HAM The etymological root for HAM is HAMUN. Hamun is the Hebrew word for Black. So even when white people claim the location of Bethlehem instead of Ethiopia, they still admit Jesus was a non-white individual without even realizing it. BETHEL=House of God and HEM=Black The term literally means House of the Black God!!!!!!!! The white clergy does not want us to know these historical items. They want us to stay eternal spiritual slaves. This is why "biblical history" is just as important as "biblical scripture". I know you may be thinking, "Where is coming from with all of this?!" This is why it's important to read Biblical and historical accounts from a different center.....an African center. We need to use our critical, analytical minds and sift through their lies. If you don't use this different type of methodology and system of thinking, you'll look at information like this and dismiss it with disgust and disbelief. Many Black people believe that by acknowledging a true Black Jesus, they would abandon their Christian roots. Many Black folks have told me that, "It doesn't make a difference what color Jesus is!!" Then I usually say, "I thought that everything to God makes a difference...especially the truth." If it doesn't make a difference, then why don't white American churches ever portray a Black Jesus??? If Jesus was an African with African features as described in Revelations 1:14 and Daniel 7:9, what would that mean? It meant that Almighty God of the universe sent a son that was in His image. When you see a son, you see the father....and when you see the father, you see the son.....because the father is in the son and the son is in the father!!! Almighty God knew exactly what he wanted his son to look like. Remember in Matthew 2:15, when Almighty God said, "Out of Egypt shall I call my son!" The true name of Egypt in Biblical times was Kemet. The ancients spelled it, KMT. The word literally means "land of the black." Egypt is a Greek term derived from the term Aigyptos.....which means (guess what)....Black. When God called His son out of the "land of the Black", Egypt at that time in history was primarily Black in ethnicity. We become fooled when we look at the modern Egyptians and think that they are the descendants of true ancient Egyptians.....this is dead wrong. Present day Egyptians are the descendants of the Arabs who invaded Egypt in 640 AD...that's 600 years after Jesus' death! The modern present-day Egyptian is an invader, and has absolutely nothing to do with the tremendous feats of knowledge and architecture that the ancient Egyptians mastered. That's why in 1979, right before his assassination, Anwar Sadat (Egyptian President) said, "I'm a Black man and I'm the first to pharaoh in 2,000 years." He realized that his colleagues were Arab, not a true indigenous African like him. This is why when Lou Gossett, Jr. portrayed Sadat in a movie, it was banned in Egypt. Jesus was taught in Egypt in the huge ancient Masonic temples of knowledge. Let's use our common sense, during that time it was simply impossible to hide a white boy in Egypt at that time for several years before he was called out! Even though it underwent a series of historical invasion, Egypt was a Black nation for over 7,000 years. Let us stop worshiping the false image of God and Jesus. It's not good enough for me say that Jesus is Black, just because I'm Black.....no no no. It's not good enough for me to merely paint his face with a Black magic marker. Today we have literature, evidence, and a Mighty God that backs our claim! History best qualifies our research. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from the lack knowledge. There is sooooo much evidence available on these findings. The battle today is for the African heart and mind. Seek and ye shall find.