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6 de Enero, 2007
I'm Dreaming of a White Jesus
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A SHADOWY FIGURE standing under a crucifix oversees two brown-skinned people as they hang a stained-glass window depicting a White Jesus with a blonde, fair child on his lap. On the front page of my newspaper, this is touted as the gentlest of Biblican narratives comes to life.
Make if it what you will. I have.

Also the America I grew up in, though I did most of my iconic absorption on the East coast. And if you are White, it all makes sense, doesn't it? It might not ruffle your feathers a bit. You may not even think twice, upon finding the front page of this paper. Or upon being exposed to the movie messaging. Or the ads on TV. Or the odd "oversensitive" conversations among People of Color.
And finally, you may not get why after years and years and years of this sort of imagery pounded into your brain (or being the Black artist who makes this and gets front page propz for conforming to the Master's imagery and expectation for you), non-Whites in America might get a little fucked in the head and have identity/ethnicity issues.
But I understand.
update: There are a few different things being talked about in the thread. And that is good. But I'd like to clarify that what mostly upset me about this was not really quite so much that Jesus was being portrayed as white—despite the title of the post. Because reader Richard is right: every culture shows Jesus as they are. (Even if that would be contradictory to the Story of Jesus, and where/when he is from.) What really got under my skin is related to how the paper was making a big deal of this "new look" of theirs; that it is so beautiful and touching that Jesus is now shown with children. Yay, but two things made me feel sick in my gut about that:
1. The visual representation that the paper fotographer chose; that which I stated above. I mean come on. Black workers, White Jesus, Blonde/fair child above the darkies; all titled "Color and Light?" How can you avoid reading into that? Bag News Notes should have this jammie on that junk alone! (PS if you don't know the slant of this NorthWest paper, it is the type that headlines articles things like "Bush Reasserts His Power.")
2. That the "new touching scenery" that was so uplifting to this church was that Jesus loves Aryan-stylie babies. Why not have a brown baby on his lap and really act in the spirit of Jesus, that of healing, bringing people together, esp in this time of racial tension rising? Why add to it? Why enlist brown people to add to that tension and their own visual oppression? It's that last part that really burns me. I hate seeing the Brown help the Dominant Structure oppress the Brown or reinforce divisions between themselves. Which is why it has always been an interest of mine to feature not just anti-Mex messaging in this blog, but anti-BROWN messaging. Its why I don't just salute and celebrate the Brown, but the Black, and the Women, and the Asians, and so on. Because it is the bigger picture we need to focus on. Yes, we need to unite amongst our own groups to bring power and love and strength to our own kind. But if us individual (oppressed) groups only focus on our own gig, we are not helping each other. We are helping the Dominant Power Structure that wants us to tear at each other and never unite.




Comentarios (37)
Arcturus dijo:
well, I suppose I could assent to this in a qualified way (like yea, but not how I suspect you mean it in this phrase), but really, it just pisses me off this morning, nez
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 09:44 AM
Arcturus dijo:
sorry, that was in repsonse to yr phrase: "And if you are White, it all makes sense, doesn't it?"
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 09:45 AM
h.carlson dijo:
i.m a hispanic of nonmexican descent. i grew up in the north. what bible verses can you to support that jesus was not a white or light skinned person here on earth?
it would be nice if you don.t use profanity. thanks
Palabras por h.carlson spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 09:49 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
hola, h.carlson. it would be also be "nice" if i grew up in a country that didn't make me feel like a piece of shit for my natural genetic makeup. but life ain't Nice. and when you are in my house, you don't tell me how to speak. or you can, but i hope the wave of canned laughter that greets you brightens your day, because you are sure bringing a smile to my face with your brand of humor!
jesus was a swarthy-faced heretic who despised the institutional hypocrisy and greed of the priests. his image and name are now used to further the agendas of those who would kill and steal and rape on a massive scale. so of course he has become a White man.
welcome to america.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:07 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
as it should, my friend.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Arcturus dijo:
yea, just like sentences such as "And if you are Hispanic, _____ _____ _____, you ___ ___ ___ ." chalk it up to lazy phrasing
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | dijo:
well, we all have our junk to work out, man. i do mine here. and as always, when i say"white," of course i mean "White."
ps- not all things that piss us off should be immediately dismissed....
Palabras por Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:45 AM
luisa dijo:
carlson,
"what bible verses can you to support that jesus was not a white or light skinned person here on earth?"
bible verses?
actual history tells us there weren't many fair people hanging around the middle east and africa 3000 years ago. maybe my history books are different than yours? maybe jesus was the only whitey in the sea of people of color? whatever.
in some parts of africa, jesus is portrayed as a black man. in mexico, there are some mestizo interpretations. even though i am not a christian, i support the movement to not portray jesus as a human figure at all. no one is objective when painting their saviors.
my mother describes jesus only as "my favorite jew." who comes in second you ask? -einstein, marx, or jon stewart? i do not know.
are you one of those people who think that jesus was not a jewish man as well? (i hear some of that has been going around)...
Palabras por luisa spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:48 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
PS Arcturus, i am not "Hispanic." I am Mexican American. I know no "Hispanic," and I will not wear a label devised by the White Power Structure to obscure the brownness and Indianness of my being. Just so you know about the terms I use for myself. I guess I have to add that to my glossary of terms.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:50 AM
Arcturus dijo:
well, no offense intended & I stnad corrected -- still, you DO know of what I speak . . .
(did you think I was being dismissve?)
as fer as mister J - he was semitic - it was the Italians who first depicted him as euro (tho they also have some fascinating Blak Madonnas we won't get into now) - byt the time teh Dutch get to him, he's a blonde blue-eyed baybee
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | dijo:
no, Arcturus. i did not feel you were being "dismissive" to me. when i say "dismissed," what i mean is that those things that anger us often warrant a closer look...for our own benefit.
si, perhaps, it was sloppy phrasing. please understand i mean YOU no personal insult. after all, i do not know most readers' ethnicity! however, this blog is pro-Brown. and if my sentiments must fall in error on one side of a line of favoritism, it will do so in the converse spirit of that which is ubiquitous once i step out my door. ¿comprendes? :)
in friendship,
Nez
Palabras por Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Jena dijo:
Everybody knows Americans and historical accuracy don't get along ;)
Jesus, like all of us, is descended from a Middle Eastern ape. Show me a church with that in the stained glass & I might consider going.
Palabras por Jena spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Rafael dijo:
I grew around both types of "Jesus" the black and the white (along many "saints" and such). Call it a recognition of our Afro-Caribbean heritage (although I am a criollo, white pale skin, except for my hair, that comes straight from my grandma!).
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 11:41 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
Everybody knows Americans and historical accuracy don't get along
ain't that the truth.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 12:18 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
¡ojo! y'ain't seen nunka til ya catch my new cholo-jesus. ;)
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Arcturus dijo:
hmmm ... not sure 'hispanic' as used in society isn't a marker for 'brown,' or least 'non-white-other' . . . but I get the objection - much as any other racial label, no? an artificial obscuring of different backgrounds/heritages? like 'asian'? or 'black' 'white' brown' for that matter
anyhoos, I trust you know I'm w/ yr reading of the newspaper image - an important one - tho I'd add the class element as well
thnx for the dialogue - as always - it oddly ties in somehow to somethign I was workign a whiles back that got abandoned on our concepts of 'genocide' & 'crimes against humanity' & how the former eerily mirrors the racist framing it's intended (there's *that* word again:) to combat
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 12:24 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
"Hispanic" is a US govt word. deemphasizes the Indian. america wants to forget that Mexicans are Indians. thats why "Greaser" was invented for us in the early 1900s. if we are Indians, that reminds everyone of the genocidal invasion of the European Whites who are still trying to conquer the continent. but we want to think of Indians in the past.
"Hispanic" references Spain. Nice 'n' White-land. I am not Spanish. My father is Mexican. His father was born in Mexico. So was his father. Simple!
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Arcturus dijo:
I grew back up back east where hispanic mostly meant puerto rican - euro-black, little if any indian blood, as the spanish pretty much decimated the native population, just like in haiti
& in truth, spain is more complex than 'Nice 'n' White-land,' no?
dreaming of the lost gardens of andalusia
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:08 PM
Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | dijo:
i grew up mostly on the east coast, too. It has the same government as the rest of the USA, and it was our government that came up with the terms that denies the Indian his due (why do you say that Puerto Ricans are not Indians? DNA testing was done in P.R. to discover if there was any remnant of the Taino Indians, and 90% of the population was found to have "significant" Indian DNA, I'll post this later), and ties all Spanish and Mexicans (and the rest) together without ever really describing their lineage.
What is "Hispanic?" It is not an ethnicity. Again, it refers to a country. And Spain is north, it is Europe, it is Fair-skinned on the whole. Of course it's more complex than that! Moors, Gypsies, etc and just like every "white" nation, it is not all white.
Where did the Spanish decimate most of the native population? In Mexico? Are you serious? This is worth an entire post, but I'll just say pleeeeeeeease research, as the many tribes still living and struggling to live in the face of aggressive imperial vampirism (the Mexicali Valley Cucupá are right now fighting to retain their fishing rights, being crushed by the corporate aggression that wants to eradicate a tribe that has lived there for 8000 years) would disagree with your opinion on this.
anyway, it's irrelevant, here! the point is "Hispanic" references SPAIN. and i am not SPANISH. i am MEXICAN. i hate to use caps, but i'm really not sure why we are still discussing my self-identification. I see it as both Male and White privilege to come swooping in to a Brown person's blog and "set things straight" on such types of issues. If you felt stung because I talked about a White abstract person and perhaps gave you a grain of what I've felt in spades for my entire life, then just sit with it. Think about it. And learn from my experience and feelings.
On the other hand, if you want to respond to a post like this and say "Well, this 'White' person actually didn't have those feelings about that newspaper photo, and I felt, instead, this way:" that's cool. See the difference? One shows respect and recognizes my equality, and the other is patriarchal and privileged behavior.
in friendship,
Nez
Palabras por Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:36 PM
yo soy Horsedooty! dijo:
Nezua,
is there a way to increase the font size on the comemtarios?
mis viejos ojos need ayudo.
for what it is worth, everyone call themselves how they want to be referred. Mexicanan sounds right.
gracias,
yo soy Horsedooty!
Palabras por yo soy Horsedooty! spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:49 PM
yo soy Horsedooty! dijo:
Nezua,
is there a way to increase the font size on the comemtarios?
mis viejos ojos need ayudo.
for what it is worth, everyone call themselves how they want to be referred. Mexicanao sounds right.
gracias,
yo soy Horsedooty!
Palabras por yo soy Horsedooty! spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:49 PM
yo soy Horsedooty! dijo:
lo siento for the double post.
yo soy Horsedooty!
Palabras por yo soy Horsedooty! spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:51 PM
Fernando dijo:
I don't know what color Jesus was or if any of his words are actually in the Bible. Most people agree that the population around Nazareth are not European thou. Most Europeans were later overrun beginning with the Christian Roman Emperor Constantine.
I know modern myth holds the ancient Aztec and Mayan God Quetzalcoatl looked European and had facial hair even thou that was unknown to the ancient Mezzo-American peoples.
I do not believe that myth either as I have not seen any pre-conquest evidence to support it. The earliest documented evidence of this myth exists from Cortez's writing to the Spanish Monarchy of how gullible the indigenous people are. The Spanish themselves called themselves god like in that instance as far as I can tell.
The most recent Archeological representation of St. Nicholas (Santa Clause) I've seen is of him in very dark brown skin. St. Nicholas was born and spent most of his time on the Asian side of Turkey although there are many myths that he was German and white - he wasn't.
In the end the same Christian power structure that evolved from Rome around 360ad, later overtook Europe for 1200 years then spread through early America in the second decade of the 1500's.
The children of Abraham have taken over many cultures, many have died, and many have been subjugated. There is little that differentiates us now but skin color sadly.
Every once in a while you might find a Pagan, a friendly Buddhist or Hindu. If you are lucky, you will meet several of them.
Palabras por Fernando spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:57 PM
Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | dijo:
hola horsedooty. to increase the font push key combo "Cmnd & +" (that's the "command" (or "apple button") at the same time as the "+" button) for a Macintosh, or "Ctrl & +" ("Control" button at the same time as the "+" button, for PC Windows computers) or go to your menu atop the screen/browser (or your browser preferences) and find View>Increase Font Size or something to that effect.
Palabras por Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 01:58 PM
yo soy Horsedooty! dijo:
Gracias,
I knew that. Just brain fart I guess.
yo soy Horsedooty!
Palabras por yo soy Horsedooty! spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Richard dijo:
But everyone knows Jésus was Mexican... he hung out with his compadres, stretched out the leftover fish into a fiesta for everybody, knew a bunch of putas, but thought his mother was a virgin (sorry... a very old, very bad joke).
What was the congregation for this window? Maybe Jesus looks like them. I got a Christmas card from Bolivia this year with a very brown, very Bolivian looking Jesus, and the shepherds were watching their flocks of llamas by night.
That a black or brown Jesus is still newsworthy is unfortunate, but what the hey.... the guy probably looked Jewish (just a guess).
Palabras por Richard spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 02:12 PM
Arcturus dijo:
fascinating about the taino blood - I'm happy to be wrong - pretty sure tho that the spanish did indeed annihilate the native population of haiti
if 'hispanic' has any use, it's a linguistic tag - marker of empire, like anglophone, or chinese - believe me, i'm not married to it :) & totally useless as any ethnic reference - it totally burns the portugese here in the valley to be regularly referred to as hispanics, like wtf?
(which goes back to the point before about how socio-blahbbity, it's MOSTLY *used* as a 'non-white-brownish' marker & yea, racist - t'wasn't it nixon who made it official gov-speak?
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 02:18 PM
oye dijo:
i like coming from velasquez y goya tambien, the spanish classicism in painting, picasso y rivera. so what
i like running into frida y orzoco tambien.
i am sure that i would tremble before quetzi=pooh y tezcatlicpoca. ehecatli to the max bro.
i sense this jeebus is part of that not so nice nazi
ratzo the incarnate of jeebus on the earth. the pope.
once a nazi always a nazi.
christians kill in the name of their namesake.
it seems the fundies are out doing the the catolicos sincerceros in the south.
you are generally on the mark,
i grew up in the land of avalanches. pendido gringos why drive your suvs in the mtn passes after all that nieve.
i loathe colorado, no more water for the mc mansions, la tierra is muey triste and they say blame the mexicans 'el nino. no mr. mexican your are not an aberration your just a stubborn cactus true to su sangre sacrado, yo tambien.
i still prefer buffalo to red, white, and freezin to death cattle. red white and boo hoo blue.
kit carson? my a--.
surge? just go to your brush and keep it to yourself your perverse sense of surge.
Palabras por oye spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 02:56 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
your are not an aberration your just a stubborn cactus true to su sangre sacrado
jeje. i love that.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 03:39 PM
RickB dijo:
Not to mention, as Eddie Izzard pointed out, how all the apostles had nice anglo names except Judas.
Palabras por RickB spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 03:42 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
Wasn't Peter also called "Simón"?
;)
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 03:49 PM
Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | dijo:
hey arcturus...yeah, it was. which tells us all we need to know! :)
also:
Palabras por Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 03:53 PM
Richard (again!) dijo:
The visual representation that the paper fotographer chose; that which I stated above. I mean come on. Black workers, White Jesus, Blonde/fair child above the darkies; all titled "Color and Light?" How can you avoid reading into that?
GOOD POINT!!! And I thought I was subtle comparing The Unapologetic Mexican to Eduard Manet (http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/saddam-maxmiliano-napoleon-iii-george-w-bush-and-eduard-manet/)
Palabras por Richard (again!) spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 05:13 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
jaja! great stuff, 'mano. i had to link that to the saddam pic post, of course.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 6 de Enero, 2007 at 05:36 PM
miss lynn dijo:
Billy Graham Says: “JESUS WAS A MAN OF COLOR” (Believe, Trust & Accept Jesus & Have Eternal Life!)Billy Graham: (White Evangelist) "Jesus was NOT a white man…Christianity is NOT a white man’s religion, Christ belongs to all people; he belongs to the whole world." The Billy Graham Crusade @ Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 27-30, 2003. Attendance: 63,000 (http:www.cincinnati.com/billygraham/themessag...) CNN Presents: Billy Graham, America’s Pastor: (9-9-2006) “God Loves You, he (Jesus) was NOT a European.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Jes... Thanks.Miss lynn
Headline News… Billy Graham says: “JESUS IS A MAN OF COLOR!”
(Believe, Trust & Accept Jesus & have Eternal Life!)
Billy Graham: (white Evangelist) "Jesus was NOT white; he came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is NOT a white religion, and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black.Christ belongs to all people; he belongs to the whole World." The Billy Graham Crusade at Paul Brown Stadium, in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 27-30, 2003. Attendance: over 63,000 (http:www.Cincinnati.com/billygraham/themessage.html)
CNN Presents: Billy Graham, America’s Pastor: (9-9-2006) “God Loves You, he (Jesus) was NOT a European.”
The Chieftain: (Bible Missions 2 Native Americans) “Native Americans have been told that Salvation by Jesus is the white man’s Religion…THIS IS A LIE, Jesus was NOT a white man! Native-Jewish People are Brown-Skinned with Distinctive Features. The Apostles, Bible Writers & Members of the 1st Church were Non-white Natives of the Middle East.”
King Dwyd or Dovid (David) is described as Ruddy (Red, Reddish-Brown, Bronzed, Brown, Suntanned, Tanned) or Healthy Skin. (1 Samuel 16:12) (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Racist groups say David is white, but the Hebrew word for white is Laban Not Ruddy. David is from Shem (Semitic) Not Japheth (Europeans) (Luke 3:31, 36, Genesis 10)
Christianity began in Judea: Then, spread 2 Central Asia, Egypt, Ethiopia (Acts 8:27-40) (1st Century AD), Rome (325-396 AD, 4th Century AD), & Europe (Insight Guide: Israel, 1999, p. 27) (Renamed Middle East in 20th Century AD by whites)
Novette Thompson: (Female Methodist Minister) told Spare Rib Magazine (January 1993, p. 30): "Christianity began to change when it spread to the Greek & Roman World (325-396 AD) that was rooted in empire & patriarchal structure. Jesus was no doubt African-Arabic, Rome was the new Coloniser & Greek influence was strong. Jesus came to be Europeanised.” Sepia Magazine: (December, 1980, p. 10-17)
“Before the rise of white supremacy, people of all Continents drew Mary & Jesus in Dark Colors”…”France has over 200 Black Madonnas.” (Dr. S. Epps)
Dr. Mark Goodacre: (University of Birmingham, England) “There is NO Evidence as to what Jesus looks like, Earliest depictions of Jews are Dark-skinned, I think the safest thing is to talk about Jesus as a Man of Colour."
Dr. Cardoza-Orlandi: (Columbia TheoloGical SeminarY) “In other Parts of the World, Jesus is shown as Black, Arab, or HisPanic. So the Question remains: What did Jesus look like? (PoPular Mechanics, December 2002, P. 68)
Rev. Promise Y. Lee: “The Greatest Lie that white supremacists have told People of Color is that Jesus was white…Jesus certainly was NOT European…Most Bible Scholars agree, Jesus would be considered a Man of Color.”
Tim Wise: (White Author & Activist) "The First dePictions of Jesus were of a Dark-skinned man in the Catacombs of Rome…Some of these depictions are still in the Vatican…There are Millions of Jews all over the World that Look Like African, HisPanic, Indian, & Arab PeoPle.” (St. Olaf ColleGe, MN, 2001)
Flavius Josephus: (Jewish Historian, 37-100 AD, 1st Century AD) says Jesus was “Both his nature & his form were human: for he was a man of simple appearance, mature age, short growth, three cubits tall [about 4 & a half feet] & DARK skin.” “The Messiah Jesus & John the BaPtist AccordinG to Flavius JosePhus” PP. 425-429 & “Messiah Christ” PP. 411, 421, 442, BY Dr. Robert Eisler. “African HeritaGe StudY Bible” P. 1377, 1993.
Dr. Charlesworth: (Princeton Seminary) “We have Hair of a Jewish woman during Christ time, it was Very DARK, we have Dark Hair, Eyes & Skin.” CNN Presents (December 16, 2004)
Jesus sPoke Aramaic (a Semitic LanGuaGe)
The Theories of Race & Color Supremacy are NOT in the Bible, but created by White
Scientists in the 18th Century AD. "Race & Manifest Destiny" (Harvard University Press, 1981).
Jesus’ ancestors are from Shem (Semites) & Ham (Africans) People of Color.
The people of Japheth (Europeans) are the Nations of the Gentiles (Genesis 10:5)
THE NATIONS (Descended from Noah's 3 sons, Shem, Ham & Japheth & their wives) (Genesis Chap. 10 & I Chronicles Chap. 1)
SHEM (Sem): Semitic People, Dusky (Dark Skin) or Olive-Colored (Yellow, Brownish Skin) Elam (East Indians), Asshur (Assyrians),Arphaxad (Ishmaelites [Arabs], ISRAEL [Hebrews]), Aram (Syria, Lebanese), Moabites, etc.,
HAM (Kham): African People, (Hot or Black) Cush (Ethiopians), Mizraim (Egyptians), Phut (Libya), CANAANITES (Palestine), etc.,
JAPHETH (Yepeth): European People, (Fair Skin)are the Nations of the Gentiles (Genesis 10:5) Gomer (Celts), Ashkenaz (Germans, Scandinavians), Magog (Russians), Madai (Medes, Persians), Javan (Greeks), Tarshish (Spain), Kittim (Italy), etc.,
Most Scholars suggest that Asians are from Sinite & Hittites (sons of Canaan, African)? (Genesis 10:17) and/or Magog (Japheth, who Migrated North East)?
Only God knows for certain!
Jesus’ Genealogy: Jesus, Dawid (David) & Abraham descended from Shem (Luke 3:31, 34, 36). RAHAB & TAMAR are Canaanites (Africans), & are in Jesus’ ancestry (Mattityahu [Mathew] 1:2-17).
JESUS is from the Tribe of Yehudah (Judah) (Revelation 5:5). Judah married a Canaanite (African) wife named SHUAH (Genesis 38:2-30, & Mathew 1:3), & she begat TAMAR (Canaanite) who begat Perez & Zerah, who are AFRICAN ancestor of Christ.
“Out of ONE Blood, God made the Nations.” (Acts 17:26)
IN APRIL 2001, WHITE BIBLE SCHOLARS,SCIENTISTS & JEWISH ANTHROPOLOGIST STUDY ANCIENT JEWISH SKULLS:
Their Conclusion Is That The Jews During
The Time Of Christ Were People Of Color!!!
httP://www.reJesus.co.uk/exPressions/faces_Jesus/GallerY/bbc.html (Picture #10)
Arthur Koestler (a German Jew): “In Europe (740 AD), the Khazars Converted to Judaism, & forced millions of whites to become Jews, the European Jews are Not the original Hebrews.” (The Thirteenth Tribe, 1976, pp. 15-16)
Jewish Encyclopedia: (1973) Eastern European Jews are Khazar and Japhetic in origin, NOT Semitic. “Egyptians & Arabs say Original Jews were Dark like themselves, & light-skinned Israeli Jews are European Colonialists.” (The Black Biblical Heritage, 1994, p. 235)
Dr. Mark Goodacre
(White British Theologian):
“The Jews were Afro-Asiatics & had
Short Curly Hair, if you like, Afro in style,
& a Black Beard."
Dr. Joe Zias
(Jewish Archaeologist & Anthropologist):
“The Jewish Skulls are Wider, Rounder & Robust,
(i.e., Mongoloid & Negroid Type)
Non-Jewish Skulls are Long & Narrow.” (Caucasian)
“Icons of Jesus Reflect the Culture of their artists,
but they Don’t Reflect Typical
Faces Found in Ancient Israel.”
(Jesus: The Complete Story, 2001)
Discovery Channel
The Son of God Team used a 2,000-year-old 1st Century Jewish Skull from
the Tribe of Judah (the tribe Jesus is from) found in Ancient Israel.
”Jewish heads are very different today to 2,000 years ago,
so the team looked for a Jewish Skull from the period of Jesus.”
The Hair of men in the Middle East, which tends to be THICK, DARK & CURLY.
Physical Image: Hair: Black, Short, & Curly (Afro-Like Hair). Eyes: Brown. Nose: Broad.
Lips: Thick Lips. Skin: Brown to Dark Olive Complexion. Face: Broad, Thick & Round.
Height: 5 feet 1 Inches. Weight: 110 Pounds
(Popular Mechanics, December 2002, Volume 179, Number 12, pp. 68-71)
Marcus Borg (Ph.D. Religion & Culture @ Oregon State University)
http://www.rejesus.co.uk/expressions/fac...
“It’s like Faces in North Africa, Egypt, parts of Israel & Jordan.” (Dr. Richard Neave, University of Manchester in England) See Pictures #10 (a) & (b). To order video or DVD "Jesus: The Complete Story” 2001 (USA) “Son of God” 2001 (Great Britain) 1(800) 627-9399 or discoverychannel.com “Our Skin was Black.” (Lamentations 5:10)
JESUS Name in Hebrew (Yeshua) MarY (Miryam) JosePh (YowcePh) Jehovah (Yahweh) Moses (Moshe) God (El) Abraham (Avraham) Isaac (Yitzhak) Jacob & James (Ya’ aQov) Peter (Shim`on Kefa) Thomas (Te’oma’)
To order video or DVD "Jesus: The Complete Story” 2001 (USA) Called: “Son of God” 2001 (Great Britain) 1 (800) 627-9399 or discoverychannel.com (Lamentations 5:10) “Russian Icons” by Vladimir Ivanov.httP://www.reJesus.co.uk/exPressions/faces_Jesus/GallerY/bbc.html
God (El) Abraham (Avraham) Isaac (Yitzhak) Jacob & James (Ya’ aQov) Peter (Shim`on Kefa) Thomas (Te’oma’)
(A) Who Painted the First Picture of Mary & Jesus?
(A) Who painted the first Picture of Mary & Jesus? China Galland: (White Theologian) suggests that St. Luke (Lucanus) painted an icon of Mary & Jesus on a table in Nazareth, Israel in the 1st Century AD, some 40 years after Christ. It is Believed to be the FIRST drawing of the Holy Family (World Book Encyclopedia, 1995, p. 37). His icon is called: THE BLACK MADONNA, it shows Mary & Jesus as People of Color.
Today the icon sits in Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland. Book: “Longing for darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna” by China Galland (1990) Viking Penguin Press (pp. 134, 189, 194) Europe, Central & South America have BLACK MADONNAS (e.g., Germany, France, Italy, UK, Vatican, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Sweden, Holland, Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Israel, etc.,)
“Longing for darkness: Tara & the Black Madonna” (p. 134).
Pope John II prays to St. Luke's Black Madonna (Time Magazine June 11, 1979). “Many of the Earliest Madonnas were Black, until the Renaissance (Michelangelo, 1475-1564, 16th Century AD) when it was popular to paint the Madonna white.” (Washington Post, May 4, 1979) (See Picture #5)
“The most sacred icons of the Catholic Church and also, Prominent cathedrals in EuroPe are the Black Madonna & Christ child.”
(B) THE CATACOMBS: : where images of Jesus appear for the FIRST time, painted by the 1st Christians (Essenes) in Rome, Italy, 100-200 years after Christ (2nd & 3rd Century AD). Jesus is shown as a Man of Color with Black/Brown Skin. http://www.saxakali.com/suzar/nappy.htm
Godfrey Higgens: (White British Historian) “In all the Romish (Catholic) countries of Europe, in France, Italy, Germany, etc., the God, Christ, as well as his mother are described in the old pictures to be Black. The infant God in the arms of his Black mother, his eyes drapery white,is himself perfectly Black.”(Book: "Anacalypsis,” page 138, Volume I)
Kersey Graves: (White American Historian) "There is as much evidence that the Christian Savior was a Black man, or at least a Dark man. In pictures and portraits of Christ by the Early Christians, he is uniformly represented as being Black.” (Book: "The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors,” 1875 AD, p. 56)
Tim Wise: (White Author)“The white iconography of Jesus that predominates in this culture makes absolutely no sense, except as an artifact of a white supremacist Worldview. First off, the Earliest representations of Jesus & Mary appear in the Catacombs of Rome, where the First Christians, known as Essenes, buried their dead. All of these portrayals picture a Dark-skinned Messiah.” (Santa, Jesus, & the symbolism of white supremacy, December 20, 2000) (See Picture #6)
(C) (Pictures #7 & #8) DURA EUROPOS (Jewish Synagogue in Syria, 256 AD, 3rd Century AD)
“Synagogue in Syria, Earliest Depictions of Jewish People in the World.” (Son of God, 2001)
Ancient Jews painted images of Jesus, Moses & themselves as People of Color, typically, with Short Black Woolly Hair & Brown Skin. Most Jews Look like Indians, Hispanics & Africans; Jacob is shown with an AFRO. “The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible” (2005, p.170)“The Harper Collins Bible Dictionary” Rev. Ed. by Paul J. Achtemeier. (1996) Picture #8: Moses Looks Like an African-Arabic. http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/eikon/subjects.jsp?subjectid=464
Jesus Lived about (0-33 AD, 1ST Century AD) B.C. (Before Christ) A.D. (After Christ)
Tacitus (Roman Historian, 56-120 AD, 1st Century AD) Writes:“The Hebrews are of the EthioPian & EGYPtian OriGin.” (Annuls Book 5 ChaPter 2)
(D) DESCRIPTION OF JESUS IN HEAVEN: "His HAIR were like WOOL, His FEET were like Burnished Bronze as if they burned in a fire" (Revelation 1:14-16) “The Ancient of Days (GOD) did sit, his HAIR were like WOOL” (Daniel 7:9) "The Son of God, who's EYES are like a flame of FIRE, & FEET like burnished BRONZE" (Revelation 2:18) "His LIKENESS like unto Jasper & Sardine Stone” (BROWNISH-RED) (Revelation 4:3)
"The COLOR of his ARMS and FEET like unto burnished BRONZE" (Daniel 10:6)
Burnished Bronze is a BROWN Color!
(E) DESCRIPTION OF JESUS ON EARTH: He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, & NO Beauty that we should desire him. Despised & rejected by men; a man of sorrows, & grief; & as one from whom men hide their faces; He was oppressed & afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter. (Isaiah 53:2-5,7) But I am a worm, & no man; scorned by men, & despised by the people. All who see me mock at me; they make mouths, & wag their heads. (Psalms 22:6,7,14,16-18)
JESUS Name in Hebrew (Yeshua) MARY (Miryam) Joseph (Yowceph) Jehovah (Yahweh) Moses (Moshe) Elizabeth (Eli’ Sheva) Rebecca (Ribqah) Hebrew (ibriy) Israel (Ysrayl) Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) Bethlehem (Beit Lekhem) Nazareth (Natsarat) Andrew (Andrai) Paul (Sha’ ul) Michael (Mikha`el) John (Yochanan, Yehohanan) 14:8-9 (PhiliP [PiliPPos] asked Jesus what God Looks Like)
The word Adam means “Mankind & Dirt”
httP://www.ida.net/users/rdk/ces/Lesson1/name.html
ASSYRIAN Stone Tablet shows Woolly Haired Israelites with African Faces from the Tribe of Judah (the tribe Jesus is from) in 701 B.C. (8th Century B.C.) @ Nineveh (Ancient Iraq) Book: “New Atlas of the Bible” by Jan H. Negenman (page 96, 1969)
Sir Harry Johnston (White British Historian) states:
“There is a Negro Eye & Full Lips in the [Judahite] portraiture of Assyria, an Evident Negro Element.”
(Negro in the New World, pp. 24-27, 1910) (Picture #11)
Tells that Lachish was given to the Tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:39)
King Hezekiah of Judah was fighting for the Tribe of Judah against the Assyrians (2 Kings 18:14-17)
“Man looks at the OUTWARD APPEARANCE, but the LORD looks at the HEART.”
ALL HUMAN BEINGS are PREJUDICE, because WE JUDGE by SIGHT, but GOD JUDGES by the HEART!
(I Samuel 16:7)
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DEAR PEOPLE OF COLOR: Jesus knows what you are going through.
CHECK THIS OUT!!!
THE EVIL WHITE ROMANS
The White Romans were the foreign invaders, oppresors, wealthy, powerful people who were the ENEMIES of Jesus and his DARK Skinned Hebrews (People of Color).
JESUS AND HEBREWS
Jesus and his Hebrew people are like Native-Americans.
Both People of Color, Oppressed by the EVIL white man (Romans, white americans), forced to live in a
white supremacy society (Roman Empire, USA),
Forced to pay taxes 2 the evil white man (Romans, white americans), had their land stolen from them by the evil white man (Romans, white americans),
Forced 2 become third class citizens in their own homeland (Judea, North Africa, North America),
Spoke against the evil white establishment (Roman empire, white america), scattered all over the place by the evil white man (Romans, white americans),
Oppressed and enslaved by the evil white man
(Romans, white americans), etc.,
The white man was the evil guy 2,000 years ago,
the white man is the evil guy now doing the same thing 2
Native-Americans as he did to Jesus and his Hebrews!!!
Thanks.
PRAISE GOD & BLESS YOU.
Thanks.
Miss lynn
Palabras por miss lynn spat forth on el 13 de Enero, 2007 at 09:12 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
whoa.
thank you for your time and effort, lynn.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 13 de Enero, 2007 at 12:15 PM
richo dijo:
We Mexican and Puerto Ricans must rember that a thousands and thousands of African slaves were used to settle and cultivate the land. We must shed are shed are colonial way of thinking by accepting are African ancestors.
Palabras por richo spat forth on el 28 de Abril, 2007 at 10:12 AM