Redefining Black and Correcting His-Story
By Ray Stone
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Schools still teach that Columbus discovered America although most people know that it's not true. The truth is that America is an ancient land that was civilized long before 1492. This book explores where today's so-called black people were in those historic times.
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Redefining Black and Correcting His-Story - Ray Stone
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White Jesus
This long trip down the rabbit hole started for me with the white Jesus. When I was growing up, the majority of my friends in my neighborhood and family members had a picture of white Jesus in their home. All the Bible characters in pics, books, and in movies always looked like this:
It never made any sense to me. How could everyone have that pale skin? It was hot enough for them to be barefoot, with green grass and blue skies—so wouldn’t they at least be tanned?
At my mom’s church, other than the politicians who sat uncomfortably through services during election time, there was nothing but black members. The highly admired Bishop was very dark complected with skin like burnt brass. However the most prominent picture in the building was the one of a white Jesus hanging high over our heads.
I would stare at the large image as I daydreamed through the seemingly endless church services. Sunday after Sunday, I never understood how a congregation full of black people were singing, dancing, and praising under this white guy. How did this happen?
Black people are very spiritual, and our families are generally serious about religion. We believe in and rely on the power of prayer. Praying to a white Jesus can tacitly give our people an inferior complex. The irony of it was not lost on me as a youth, it bothered me incessantly.
Whenever I asked about why he was white, people would say that it doesn’t matter what color he was—they’d say I should not be distracted by that image, or it was just the devil trying to distract me from having a relationship with Jesus. Their reasoning was that God is a spirit and actually had no color, but all the images I saw of Jesus definitely had a color—it was that pale white dude.
If the image of the main character doesn’t matter either way, then why not just have a Savior that looks more like us, who we could better relate to? Those questions never got answered.
As an adult, I eventually learned exactly how Christianity was forced upon civilizations via ugly wars and evil crusades. People were publicly tortured and murdered in mass while being coerced into accepting Jesus Christ as their personal lord and savior. That’s the real reason that the image of Jesus is ubiquitous.
When I heard about that Bible verse (Revelation 1:15), that said he had wooly hair and skin like burnt brass, I was stoked. I figured that it would alter the image of Jesus forever, at least for black folks. It didn’t. The white Jesus pic was already cemented.
Go to YouTube and search for ‘Good Times white Jesus.’ The youngest son Micheal had replaced the white Jesus hanging in the Evans family home with a black Jesus. His mom, Florida, had a fit. She explained that she had a deep attachment to that white Jesus. When I was baby I don’t know what I saw first,
she said, my mamma, my poppa, or this Jesus, now he’s the one I know and love.
That’s basically how it went for all of us, we’ve only known one image of Jesus in our lifetime. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve grown far away from the church world or if I’ve made myself blind to it, but I hardly ever see that image anymore. It used to haunt me everywhere. Looking at it in this book brought back lots of memories from my childhood.
In those days I was a lot more militant. I would tune out anyone who I thought wasn’t about a revolution. Everything was black or white to me at that time, and I was on my black power stuff. Since then I’ve grown so much more patient and wise. I realize that this system and our people’s issues are not as