X-CURSION     MEDIA'S     BLACK    HISTORY    WEB    PAGE
 

                                                                                                                                                                    Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix  
                                                                                                                                                                    African  American  &  Native 
                                                                                                                                                                    writer-producer-director of  audio theater 

THIS  BLACK  HISTORY  PAGE  WILL  GROW  WITH  MORE  FACTS      (we're still under construction)


THE   LIBERATION   BOOKSTORE   IN   HARLEM

*  Speaking  of  Black  History  books...whatever happened to  the  Liberation Bookstore in Harlem, NY?
    I used  to go there a lot back in the 1970's.     -   Bradley  Thunderbird Phoneix
 

THE   LAUGHING   BARREL

Anyone  have  any  research on the laughing  barrels?   During  Jim Crow,  in certain  towns in the South,
black people couldn't  laugh in public.   They had  to  laugh in a barrel, and when they came up they
came up straight-faced.   I  believe that's  where the  term,"a  barrel  of  laughs"   came from.    These  laughing
barrels  may have  been regional, limited to a  certain part of the South.  They may not have been universally
throughout the South.   If  anyone  out  there has more info on the laughing barrel during  Jim Crow or slavery days,
please contact me,  Brad  Phoenix  at     info [@] bradleyphoenix.com

Bradley Thunderbird Phoenix,  African American  and  Native   writer-producer-voice actor-director of audio drama
 

THE    BLACK   MAN    ABOARD    THE    RMS    TITANIC
 

Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, the black man aboard the RMS Titanic, was  Haitian. 
Picture of  Joseph  Laroche,  his wife and two daughters   (SEE   BELOW). 

Mr. Laroche's occupation was engineer; he was  25  years  old  and  resided in Paris, France.
Joseph  Laroche  had  relatives  in  Haiti.
Laroche passed away on the RMS Titanic; his body was never recovered.
He traveled with his wife, who was a white woman, and member of aristocracy in Europe.
(Juliette (wife), Simonne and Louise (daughters).

BRAD'S    NOTE:    When  I   first  heard  there  was  one  black  man  aboard  the
Titanic, my mind gave me a picture of a man that looked like Marcus Garvey
(I'M  AWARE  THAT  MARCUS  GARVEY  WAS  JAMAICAN  AND  NOT  HAITIAN)
in features and skin color,  but I   was  wrong.   Joseph  Laroche  probably  looked
like Adam Clayton Powell or a lighter version of Cab Calloway.  So,  for  him  being married
to a white woman and being "high-yellow complexion" didn't draw much adverse attention 
GO   TO      www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item.php/2408.html

The Laroche family   Joseph  Laroche,  his wife,  and  two  daughters.    Joseph  Laroche  died  when  the  RMS  Titanic  sank.
                                                                 Mr. Laroche  is  the  African-American  man  from  Haiti  that  was  aboard  the  RMS Titanic in 1912.


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THE    TRUTH   WILL   SET   YOU    FREE        by  Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix

Over the years, I've  shared my  Black History information packets  with  folks both black & white, and some of  them  have told  me:

"Brad,  I think the information you gave me on Black History  polarizes people".    My  response:   No  it  doesn't, 
IT    INFORMS  AND  EMPOWERS!    Too  long  have black people been  put  down.   Too long  have  there been lies
about  Black History  from  people who  desperately  cling  to  a  "superiority  complex".    Accurate  historical  information 
is what  every  human  being should  strive for,  and  not  cultural  lies and urban myths.   You shall know the TRUTH, and  the
truth  shall  set you free.   Truth  sets  folks  free...IT  DOESN'T  POLARIZE!    Those  who  feel  threatened  by  Truth  always  
cry,"Foul!"   because  they  are   UNCOMFORTABLE  WITH  THE  INFORMATION.     The  nature  of  Truth  is  to  liberate, 
NOT  divide.   It's  the  nature of   lies  to  polarize, torment, and stir up confusion.     We shouldn't  just  blindly  accept  all that 
we  read  and  hear,   but  try   to be  sincerely  discerning  and  hunger  and  thirst  after  TRUTH  in  humility  (humility  means balance
spiritually, emotionally,  and physically).    When  a   person   is   arrogant,  depressed,  jealous,  envious, bored,  irritable,   racist,  etc. 
they  are  out  of   balance.    African History is very deep and full of  pleasant surprises.   We shouldn't have to beg  Black people to
study African History, they should be hungering and thirsting  to know it!           

There are white people who are  racist wolves in sheep's clothing.    Thousands of black people watched the so-called reality
TV show:   "Dog the Bounty Hunter".    "Dog"...Mr. Chapman,  appeared sincere.    He was soft and tender with some criminals
that he and his bosomy wife, son, and friends captured.    He called them "brother" and came across with empathy and sympathy
that was touching at times.   But  when the National Inquire released a recording of  "Dog" yelling at his son for dating a
black woman, he used the word  "nigger"  six times.   When "Dog" was caught, what did he do?   He apologized just
like Imus did.    "Dog" even called the Reverend Al Sharpton to smooth things over with the black community.  
"Dog" said that he wasn't attacking his son's black girlfriend's  race, but her character.    Well,  Mr. Chapman  or  "Dog",
if you were attacking her character, then you wouldn't use the word "nigger" six times.   You hypocrite!    You gargoyle! 
You're so-called show should be taken off the television permanently along with your phony fake emotions of empathy.
Like TV wrestlers in the WWA,  "Dog" is an actor!    His program is as sincere as a plastic Santa Claus, and I don't trust him.

Over the years, I've heard white people say,"Don't blame me for slavery.   Don't make me feel guilty over something that happened
over  100 years ago.    I had nothing to do with slavery."    You benefit from slavery.    You're like a carrier of a disease...the
disease of white supremacy and racism.   Y'see, a lot of white people think they are going to heaven, when in reality they
are going to hell.   They say they are good decent people.    But like the Bible says that you shall know them by their FRUIT
(their actions and words).    They claim to  have the love of God and Jesus in their hearts, BUT...
They don't want any black people living in their neighborhoods.     They don't want their white daughters to date or marry
a black man.    IF a black person came to their church, they would be talking about it for years, even though there's
a sign on most churches that says:   ALL WELCOME.    These same white churches won't go into black and hispanic
communities because of racism and fear, but they'll take up offerings to send missionaries to Africa and South America.
They claim to be good decent people, but they secretly believe just like the neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan does.
They're hypocrites, and unless they repent and have God change them, they'll die and go to hell where they belong.
George Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, David Duke, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Swartzennegger, George Wallace,
Strom Thurman, are  all  going to be  in  HEAVEN,  right?    They're  heaven has to be a  HELL for people of color.
Their heaven will be just like the United States of America.     The white man will be in charge.   People of color will
do manual labor and be 3rd class citizens in Heaven.   God is Caucasian.   Angels are Caucasions.    The United States
of Heaven...under a sovereign  Caucasian God.     A person has to decide not to be a racist...not to be color prejudice.   
Almighty God can really put love into a person so that they won't be a racist as well.    Y'see,  human beings look on the
outward appearance of a person, but God Almighty knows what a person thinks in their hearts (soul / spirit).  

Oh, by the way,  black people can be racist too.    Oppressed people can be racist.   Poverty-stricken  people can be racist.  
Filthy rich people can be racist.   So-called average people can be racist.    Hey, all the groups I  just mentioned...can anyone in
these groups STEAL?    Sure they can and have.   People in abject poverty steal.   Filthy rich people can steal...and they do.
Anyone can be a racist.   And anyone can steal and lie.   "Oh, black people are not in positions of power, so they can't
be racist"...THAT'S   NOT  TRUE!     Actually TRUTH doesn't hurt in itself...it's the reaction of people (regardless of
their color or appearance)   to  Truth that can hurt.    It's true there were black people that helped white slavers
capture black people in Africa and put them in slavery.   But it's also true that white people in the U.S.A.  helped
black people transport black slaves to freedom in the "Underground  Railroad".    The Bible is very clear:
How can you HATE a human being that you can see, and claim to love Almighty God the Creator, who you cannot see?
You're just like "Dog" the Bounty Hunter,  a  closet racist.    I  hope you repent of your racism and hate...or you will go
to HELL  throughout all eternity.   
                                                              --   Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix,  African American  and  Native 


 

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Sir Godfrey Higgins in his book, Anacalypsis, refers to Buddha as both a black and Negro god.
Anacalypsis Volume I, Chapter 4, Book 1, page 52
Book 5, Chapter 1, and page 161.

"The Features and hair of Buddha belong to the black race..."
Gerald Massey, British Egyptologist, wrote in his book: A BOOK OF BEGINNINGS

BRAD'S  NOTE:   Many people here in the United States of America think
Buddha looked like a  sumo wrestler   OR   Odd-Job from the James Bond movie, GOLDFINGER.
However, many ancient  statues show Buddha with pronounced thick lips, flat nose,  and woolly  (or  kinky)   hair. 

 

REFER TO THE BOOK:   AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS  by Joan Potter and Constance Claytor.

 
The expression  "The Real McCoy"  referred to black inventor Elijah McCoy's invention (1872).
Page 239 - 240.
 
Dr. Mae Jemison, was the first African American woman astronaut  to travel in outer space.  Pages 86 - 87.
 
Jean Baptist Pointe DuSable, Haitian,  was  the first  settler of the city of Chicago (1700's).
He was a  fur trader and owned his own business:  a  trading post.   Pages 72 -73.

Matthew Henson was the first man to reach the North Pole.  He was part of Admiral  Peary's
expedition.   He was honored by Congress in 1945.    Page 79.
 
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first open heart surgery in 1893.   Page 242.
 
Nat King Cole was the first  African American man to host a network television show (1956)
Pages 44 - 45.

Black African INVENTORS were responsible for:
The third rail for trains.
The traffic signal Automatic shoe maker...and much much more.
 

COUNT    VOLNEY'S     POWERFUL    HISTORICAL    STATEMENT

This statement by Count Volney was so deep, that I had to go to the Library of Congress when  I  was stationed in the U.S. Army in  the 
Washington, D.C. area,   to find and see for myself his statement.   I  finally got my hands on Volney's  book and of course it was written in French.   
One of the librarians spoke  French  and  interpreted  Volney's  statement.   Joel August Rogers,  Jamaican  American  researcher and historian  provided
the information  and  I  had  to  follow through.   Here's  Volney's  statement;  you better buckle your mental seat belt:

Count Volney, French historian, in his book entitled, "OEUVRES"   (WORKS)   -   1821   -   said:

"...de penser que cette race d'hommes noirs, aujourd'hue notre esclave et l'objet de nos me'pris, est celle-la' meme
a' laquelle nous devons nos arts, nos sciences, et jusqu'a' l'usage de la parole."  
 
   
(SEE   ENGLISH   TRANSLATION  BELOW).

                                                      ENGLISH     TRANSLATION:

"To  think  that  to  a  race  of  black  men  who  are  today  our  slaves  and  the 
object  of  our  contempt,  is  the  same  one  to  whom  we  owe  our  arts,  sciences, 
and  the  very  use  of  speech."

 
"Black history is deeper than most people thought.  I  marvel  and  I am  humbled  by  the  richness of
Black African History.   I  can't  pretend  to  know  it  all;  I want  to  remain  humble  and  teachable. 
I  am  an  eternal  student of  African History.    As soon  as you think you've  learned it all,  the  Creator  just
places  you  in  another  classroom and  you  have more learning and growing to do.   To  be  bored  and  complacent 
is  an  insult against the  Almighty  Creator of  all things.   But  Black History goes beyond black people picking cotton
and  whining about their  civil and human rights.   It's  not  enough  just to know  Sports  History,  black people  need 
to know  their  role  in  world  history--KNOW  THYSELF.    "Know  thyself"   is  a  phrase which  originates with
black African scholars  and  NOT  from  white Europeans from Greece or Rome.   Hey!--every   month  is  black  history 
month  to   me.       As  they  used  to  say  back in the 1960's,"Can  ya  dig it?"         Almighty  God  the creator  didn't
put me here to be a  wiseguy or a  "smart-ass",  but  to  embrace Truth  and  to  stay in balance.   May God  the Creator
help  the  human  family  to  desire  Truth.                                -     Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix 



 
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                                When  I  e-mailed  Dave Siegel,  he got back to me with some good information
                                about  the role of  African  Americans  in  RADIO.     Thanks,  Mr. Siegel!      :)

 
Dear  Bradley,

If you are still interested in the role that African Americans played
in RADIO you might want to check the following on the GOOGLE WEB SITE:

CANADA LEE (black actor)
NEW WORLD A COMING
DESTINATION FREEDOM
STORY OF RUBY VALENTINE (soap opera)
BEAULAH
AMOS AND ANDY
AUNT JEMINA
JUBILLEE
GOLDEN GATE QUARTET
SOUTHERNAIRES
  SHOWBOAT

Specific programs with black themes;
    THEATER GUILD (Green Pastures)
    COLUMBIA WORKSHOP (Drums Of Conscience) and (St. Louis Blues)

NOTE: AFRICAN AMERICAN actors, comedians and musical entertainers appeared
as regulars on certain programs as follows;
    DUFFY'S TAVERN    (Eddie Greene)
    GREAT GILDERSLEEVE   (Lillian Randolph)
    JUDY CANOVA   (Ruby Dandrich)
    DANNY KAYE    (Butterfly McQueen)
    JUNGLE JIM and MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN   (Juano Hernadez)
    BILLIE BURKE SHOW:   (Lillian Randolph)
    JACK BENNY     (Eddie Anderson)
    EDDIE CANTOR     (Thelma Carpenter)

     I could provide you with many many additional examples and in  1995
the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE produced a 12 part series that aired on PBS
called BLACK RADIO: Telling It Like It Was
(that I provided audio for).

Dave   Siegel,  Writer  &  Researcher
 

 
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POSITIVE    BLACK   IMAGES:
 
The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers, by Robert Morkot                                  

 

 

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                                                  Ancient   Egyptian   (Kemetian)  statue  on  the  LEFT   African man on the RIGHT

 The  picture above  is  from,"The African Origin of Civilization  Myth or Reality  by Cheikh Anta Diop  (ISBN:  1-55652-072-7 )  page 19.

Pharoah Ramses II on the left  and  a  black African Watusi  tribesman on the right.   Topiary is the art of shaping bushes into artwork, images, animals, etc.
The Afro hairstyle was referred to as  a "bush"  back in the 1970's  (I remember that because I had a  bushy Afro).    Some  regard ancient Egyptian  like
the  USA;  they assume  white  people  were  in charge  and  maybe there were some blacks that had  some positions of power and blue collar jobs.
That  wasn't  the  case.   According to Herodotus, the so-called "Father of History",  the Egyptians  were black people as were  the Colchians,  Nubians,
and  Ethiopians  (Abyssinians   (there's  a   famous  church  in  Harlem, NY  named  the  Abyssinian  Baptist Church).     

Herodotus  (484 (?)   -  425 B.C.)  said:    It is in fact manifest that the Colchidians are Egyptian  by race...I   had  conjectured as much myself from
two pointers, firstly because they have  black skins and wooly hair...the Egyptians and  Ethiopians have practised circumcision since time immemorial....."  
(Quote from  "Egypt  Revisited"  by  Prof. Ivan Van Sertima on page 16  (ISBN #:   0-88738-799-3  -  Copyrighted  1989  - Second printing:   1991
- 2nd edition).
 

                                                   

  Three  black  African girls  compared  to  the  statue  of  an  Egyptian  girl                          My  high school  graduation  picture...bushy afro and all.
  (the  statuette  pre-dates  the prophet  Moses)

Totemic Coiffures (hairstyles).    Hair-dos of pre-pubescent  Senegalese girls (prior to World War II)  compared to an 18th Dynasty Egyptian girl
statuette  (lower left of the picture),  more than 3,500 years earlier.     This picture and information came from  black historian  Chiekh  Anta  Diop's
book,"The African Origin of Civilization Myth or Reality"  (translated from the French by Mercer Cook)  page 41.    Hey, there's  some powerful
images in  this book.   IF only  black people really understood  the power of their history.    Ask some of  these church-going African Americans
"Where is  Egypt in relationship to Israel?"     Many...many...many   really  don't understand  the geographical  relationship  between Egypt (Kemet)
and  Israel.    Joseph and Mary took the baby Jesus and fled  into  EGYPT.    Moses  looked  like  an  Egyptian,  read  Exodus  2:15 - 21.   
The Apostle Paul  looked  like an  Egyptian, read Acts  21:37 - 40.     The Roman officer  referred to Paul  as  an  Egyptian.     Millions of  black people
here in the United States of America are missing the African connection in the Bible.   Why aren't they making the connection?   Get  connected!   

Hey  if  you  want  Black  History  information--IT'S   OUT  THERE  WAITING  FOR  YOU!!!   

Millions of  black people are only worried about  food, their hair, partying, and sexual intercourse...
They're too stupid  to  want to know their own history!    IF they ever read a book on Black History, this planet would
sprout legs and "moonwalk" to another galaxy!     Black people need to know their HISTORY!!!

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BLACK    EGYPT      and       HER     NEGRO    PHARAOHS

WRITTEN   BY    REV. STERLING   M. MEANS   IN    1945 A.D.

WHY WON'T MORE AFRICAN (BLACK) MINISTERS SHARE MORE ON THE POWERFUL AFRICAN CONNECTIONS IN THE BIBLE?

REFER TO NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, "POWERFUL AFRICAN CONNECTIONS IN THE BIBLE" BY  BRAD  PHOENIX, BLACK STARLINER
NEWSPAPER.

Rev. Means published "Black Egypt and Her Negro Pharaohs" in "Ethiopia and the Missing Link in African History" in 1945. Black Classic Press has reprinted
Rev. S.M. Means' work--yet another great African historical testimony. Black Classic Press has restored many great books by African authors; we appreciate
their mission and desire continued success for them.

Not many African (Black) ministers have come out openly and testified that the ancient Egyptians were Black people. "...I will say frankly that the ancient
Egyptians were not a Caucasian, nor Semitic Race, but they were full blooded Negroes, and belonged to the same race of Negroes that you find in America
and Africa today. The ancient Egyptians were black with woolly hair and thick lips..."    (quote  from  Rev.   Means    -   SEE   PAGE  54)

"...The Egyptians descended from the Ethiopians..." (SEE PAGE 54) Moses was born in Egypt, and Egypt is inseparably part of the African continent; therefore, Moses was an African. Joseph, the son of Jacob, was the viceroy of Egypt, second in authority under the Pharaoh (king). If it can be shown that the ancient Egyptians were Black people, then that would mean that the ancient Hebrews were Africans (Black) people also. Herodotus, "the Father of History", visited
Egypt and Ethiopia about 400 years before Jesus Christ was born; he recorded as an eyewitness, that the Egyptians and Ethipians were black-skinned with
woolly hair. (REFER TO THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS (SECTION ON COLCHIANS) Tacitus, a Roman Historian, recorded that many in his times
said that the Hebrews had an Ethiopian origin. God Almighty says that the children of Israel are like the Cushites (Ethiopians) to Him. (SEE AMOS 9:6,7). Deuteronomy 33:4 & 5th verses says that Moses was called a King of Israel.  Moses was born in Africa (Egypt), so the first king of Israel was African!

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Copyright 1965 by
Joel Augustus Rogers

The picture above is President Warren Harding. The picture below is his paternal Grand-Uncle, Oliver Harding (Abbott's Monthly, Sept. 1932). In the book,
"The Ohio Gang, The World Of Warren G. Harding", written by Charles L. Mee, Jr., the chapter entitled "The Little Nigger", President Harding is said to have
had African (Black) ancestry (The Ohio Gang, Chapter VII, pages 44-45). For Warren Harding himself said that,"The people have been calling his family and kin Negroes for eighty years..." Read Warren Gamaliel Harding, President Of The United States, written by Professor William Estabrook Chancellor for this quote
on page 35, also refer to pages 25, 29, 39, 99-100, where it mentions Warren Harding's African ancestry.

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Notice the pepper-corn woolly hair of the two Judean (Hebrew) captives on the right, on this ancient engraving (Reader's Digest: Oreat People of the Bible and How They Lived, 3rd printing, Copyright 1971, pages 236-237). Ancient artists portrayed woolly-haired Africans like this. The ancient Hebrews were Africans.  Herodotus, the "Father of History", wrote,"They have black skins and woolly hair...the Colohians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians...' Read Herodotus the Histories, translation first published in 1954, reprinted in 1973 - 1976, Penguin books Inc., translated by Aubrey De Selincourt, page 167.

Tacitus, a Roman historian, wrote regarding the origin of the Hebrews "...Many, again, say that they [the "Jews"  a  misnomer,  should  be  Hebrews] were of Ethiopian origin..." Refer to the Complete Works of Tacitus, copyright 1942, by Random House, Inc., translated from the Latin by Alfred Church and William Brodrib~, book five, pages 657-658. Tacitus wrote this around 70 A.D.
"Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord..." Amos 9:7.

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The ancient Kemetians (called Egyptians by the Greeks) were black Africans. Evidence that they had woolly hair is in the Cairo Museum in Egypt as well as their numerous ancient artwork.

Israel borders Egypt, and Egypt is inseparably part of the African continent. Research the history the Bible give us: Joseph, Viceroy of Egypt, married an Egyptian woman (Genesis 41:44-50). Abraham had a child by an Egyptian woman; her name was Hagar, and the child was Ishmael (Genesis 21:8-13). The daughters of Jethro said that Moses looked like an & 127gyptian (Exodus 2:16-22). The Hebrews were in Egypt . Northeast Africa) for over 400 years. What country dzd Joseph, Mary, and the child Jesus flee to? Egypt! The ancient Egyptians were black Africans. At least, according to the testimony of Herodotus, the Greek historian, and "Father of HistOry''. Herodotus visited Egypt 400 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, and his eyewitness testimony was that the Egyptians were black-skinned with woolly hair ("The History of Herodotus, Book II, Section 104").


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Anthony T. Browder               Books  by  Mr. Browder:                                                      The last  two books co-written  with  his daughter  (BELOW).

                                                               

I  coordinated with several  folks  to  have  Anthony  T.  Browder,  a  cultural  historian,  author,  and   lecturer, 
speak  on  Kemetian   (Egyptian)   and   Black American  History  at   the  following  venues here on Long Island:                           

The First Baptist Church  in Bay Shore, NY
Brentwood  High School    via    Suffolk Community College (Brentwood Campus) 
Hope Baptist Church   (Pastor Barbara Lemon),  Central Islip, NY
Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Amityville, NY
Stony Brook University,  Stony Brook, NY

I  befriended  Mr.  Browder  when I  attended  one of  his  lectures  in Washington, DC.       He  founded the Institute of Karmic Guidance  in 1981.:  

              For information on publications, speaking engagements, tapes and study tours, please contact:
                        THE INSTITUTE OF KARMIC GUIDANCE P.O. Box 73025, Washington, D.C. 20056
                                                 Phone:    (301) 853-2465          -         
Fax:    (301) 853-7916    

                                               Web Site: www.karmic-ikg.com
 
                                               E-mail:  
info@karmic-ikg.com

 


 

THE    NEXT   ARTICLE  WILL  BE:   WHY  JESUS  CHRIST  IS   NOT  WHITE   (CAUCASIAN)               by     B. T.   Firebird

Stop  frowning...it's  time  to  be exposed to  information you've  never  heard  before on this subject.

You're  gonna  love it!    Actually  you're  not  gonna love it.      This is the mentality among a lot of folks today:
"I don't care what color Jesus is, as long as He's white."   "Talk of Jesus's color tends to divide us."   
"If Jesus Christ were non-white, it wouldn't bother me."    Yeah, right!    OK, let's test what you know.


"The guy who helped Jesus carry the cross and the Ethiopian eunuch were black, but everyone else was white."
That's not historically accurate!   It's not true.   The role of black people in the Bible is much greater than you think.
Both Moses and the Apostle Paul were referred to as Egyptians IN THE BIBLE.     I  can  give you the scriptures right
now,   but  IF  you have a good concordance, stop being lazy and look it up  yourself!    Your brain glossed right over it.  
Do you know why?   Because you're "programmed"  to believe that anyone of any importance in the Bible had to be WHITE
(Caucasian).     I'VE  GOT  NEW  INFORMATION  FOR  YA....   

THIS   SUBJECT  SHOULD  MAKE A  LOT  OF   FOLKS  VERY  UNCOMFORTABLE!     You love being comfortable.
Set your brain on "automatic pilot".   All the people in the Bible were white.   Angels are white.  God is white...you feel safe.
Folks normally get uncomfortable growing up...it's called growing pains.    YOU'RE  NO   LONGER  SAFE  ANYMORE!
You're gonna be blown right out of the water...with TRUTH...in love.         :)    
You're  NOT gonna  love  my  article,  but  it will challenge your thinking...take you out of your  COMFORT  ZONE.

This might sound strange, but I don't want to come across as a smart ass,  wise guy, obnoxious, callous, or anything  negative,
I  THINK  YOU NEED  TO  THINK  OUTSIDE THE  BOX  and  get information  to open up your understanding on topics.
The Bible says as a person thinks...so is he.   The more information you have on a topic....I would never endorse books on
New Age,  witchcraft, or the occult  because  that mess will  destroy you  spiritually.   I  would encourage you to read the
Bible for yourself and pray and ask God Almighty,  the Creator,  to open up your understanding.    It's  a  good starting point.

It's what you learn after you think you know everything that really counts.   Here's a few examples of history, test your knowledge:

What  do  we   know  about  HISTORY?         DID  YOU  KNOW…
 
Joseph LaRoche was a  black  man aboard  the  RMS  Titanic in 1912; he was a member of aristocracy.   

Abraham Lincoln said that IF he could save the Union without freeing the slaves...he would have done it.  [I don't care for Lincoln]

According to the British Encyclopedia,  Christopher Columbus was a Spanish Jew who wanted little to do with Italy before he died.

According to the Bible, both  Moses  and  the Apostle  Paul  looked  like  the  Black  Egyptians.

The Statue of Liberty  was  originally  designed  as   a   black  woman;  the architect  was  a   French  abolitionist.

Black  Africans  visited  Central and South America  long  BEFORE  Christopher Columbus.

The term  “The Real  McCoy”   refers  to  an  invention  by  a  famous  Black  inventor--Elijah McCoy.

Natives  in  the  Americas, so-called  Indians,  were taken back to Europe as slaves thanks to Christopher Columbus.

There were  white  people who also came over  on  slave ships to North America           [You didn't know that, did you?]

Gerald Massey, British Egyptologist, wrote in his book: A BOOK OF BEGINNINGS, said:
 "The Features and hair of Buddha belong to the black race..."

 
 During  the  Jim Crow laws,  in certain  regions in the South,   Black people couldn't  laugh in public.   They had  to  laugh
in a barrel,  and when they came up they   came up straight-faced.   I  believe that's  where the  term, "a  barrel  of  laughs"   originated.   These  laughing  barrels  may have  been regional, indigenous to certain areas of the South.   They may not
have been universally  throughout  the South, but they did in fact exist.    A  horrible testimony to "white people"  pretending
or claiming to be "good Christian people",  and practicing the hatred of Satan.   Y'see, God Almighty, the Creator, is loving
and anyone who is racist, prejudice, and filled with hatred is of the Devil (Satan).    There will  be  millions of  "white people"
and  "black people"  that will not make it into the Kingdom of God  BECAUSE the Kingdom of God couldn't make it into
THEM.    What is the Kingdom of God?   Thanks for asking,  the Bible definition of the Kingdom of God is in  Romans 14:17.
RACISM  and COLOR PREJUDICE  is  a   SIN   and  God  is  against   racism.    But there's  so  much  racism,  especially
in the United  States of America.   
 

UNFORGIVENESS  IS  WORSE  THAN  THE  ADDICTIONS   TO  CRACK,   CRYSTAL   METH,   OR  ALCOHOL

After all,  if Jesus is NOT a  white man,  maybe some people might not want to go to heaven and be with a "colored" Christ.

They may be highly  un-comfortable with a brown-skin Jesus Christ.    
They are comfortable with a blond-haired  blue-eyed Jesus Christ who is European looking.   The Europeanized paintings of
Jesus always show Him lily white not even with a sun-tan.   How the heck can you be in the heat of the Middle East and not
even get a sun-tan?    Caucasians get sun-tans on the beach here in the USA.   Well the Middle East is hotter over there.
You go over to the Middle East with milky white skin and that Middle East sun will tear you up!
Jesus Christ is white???    You stand out in that Middle East sun and you won't be white either.   Hello?!   Anybody home?!

Ohhhh,   you're  comfortable now with your beautiful church building with it's expensive stained-glass windows and padded
seats with the soft Corinthian leather that smells Downey fresh,  your church's drive-through 1-hour service,  BUT hearing that
Jesus Christ  might  NOT  be  Caucasian  is  not  a  comforting  thought  for many  folks  who  still  harbor  prejudice
INSIDE THEIR HEARTS.      Racism in the BODY OF CHRIST...are you serious?    Deadly  serious!   God condemns racism.

And what is this stupidness about?    Here's the picture:   In one town, there's an Hispanic (Latino)  Christian Church, a Black
Baptist church, an  A.M.E. Methodist church building,  and several lily white churches.    IF a Black person entered the lily white
church, some of the members would  be talking about it for the next 40 years!   "Did you know a colored fellow came in our
church?"   "Hey we had a black come to our church."    Heyyyy!--you have a sign outside your church that reads:   ALL 
WELCOME.   Take the sign down if  you don't mean it!   Stop being a hypocrite and a racist!   Take the sign down.   The Body
of Christ is one.   We MUST  fellowship  and work together and forget about our skin color and our linguistic differences.   In
other countries, they speak  their native tongues, but here in the USA, we should all be able to speak English and fellowship with
one another...but we don't!   The Creator of ALL THINGS  is  not happy with us either.   We've erected these artificial cultural
fences around our  fellowships and denominations.    It's sad.   We'll be spending eternity with one another, but we can't stand
each other  here ON EARTH!       Racism and prejudice has to driven out of the Body of Christ.      NOW!

There was an argument put forth that Black people can't be racist because they're not in positions of power.   That's NOT true!
Any human being can be prejudiced or racist...and God the Creator  HATES  racism.    Want a Bible formula for racism?
RACISM  =   hatred,  strife,  FEAR, and  unforgiveness.    Hatred and strife are the tip of the iceberg;  fear  and  unforgiveness
are  the great  percentage that's beneath the water's surface.    Unforgiveness accounts for a lot of the ills of our society.   

Let's get back to the real historical Jesus, and not some European fantasy image of a white Jesus.  

I'll be honest with ya,  IF Jesus was in the USA during the 1950's, early 1960's, they would have told  Him to get in the
back of  the bus right along with Rosa Parks.    Jesus would have experienced the Jim Crow Laws of the deep South.  
He already experienced the Jim Crow laws of the white-ruled Roman empire.
Get ready for a rude awakening  when you stand before the throne of Jesus Christ on the Day of Judgment!
Santa  Claus  may  be  white,  leprechauns may be white,  hobbits may be white,  the Keebler elves may be white,
but  Jesus  Christ   is  NOT  a  white  man.    You're  racism   and  color  prejudice  is  going  to  poison your  brain, 
soul,  and  spirit   all  your  life   UNLESS  you  pray  and  ask  God Almighty  to  remove  the cancer of  that  racism
out of  your  pysche  and  soul.   Almighty God is  eager,  ready  to bend over backwards to get  the poison of Satan's
racism and hatred  out of your soul  right  now.    RIGHT  NOW!    Here's  how you do it:   Go into the privacy of
your own bedroom.   Shut the door because you don't want to be disturbed.   You can pray a prayer like this:
"Lord God,  I'm racist.   I have hatred in me.   Hatred toward family members.   Hatred toward people that are
of a different skin color.  I  apologize for disrespecting other human beings.  Please remove this racism and hatred out of my soul.  
Pour your love into me, Lord.   Your written word says you are LOVE.   Lord, I don't understand how you're going to do it,
but let your love replace the bitterness, fear, jealousy, hatred, and unforgiveness in my soul.   Thank you Lord for doing it
right now as I pray.   AMEN."

God is LOVE and LOVING  (2 Corinthians 13:11,  1 John 4:7,8)     2 Timothy 1:7  says  God has given us LOVE and
a  SOUND MIND,  NOT  racism.     Hatred for Arab human beings, hatred of Jewish human being, hatred for Asian human
beings,  hatred for Communists,  hatred for liberals,  hatred conservatives,  hatreds for Democrats, hatred for Mafia wiseguys,
hatred for police officers,  hatred for corrupt politicians, hatred for lying U.S. Presidents who send our troops into unjustified
wars to make war profits for their corporate vampire buddies....     The hatred and racism MUST stop NOW!   

Wait  a  minute!   Wait  a  minute!!     Just because you ask God to fill you with His love  DOES  NOT  mean that  you
can't  agitate for  JUSTICE  and  for morality!    You don't  stop fighting the corruption of city hall  just because  you're
not  supposed to  HATE  politically corrupt  politicians.    You don't stop fighting against police brutality just because
you're not supposed to hate  bad cops.    Continue to agitate for justice  and  challenge  political  corruption.   That's
our  duty as  God's servants   AND  citizens of the USA.   We  don't stop fighting for human rights!      We  don't  stop
fighting for true justice  not the "justice"  and  so-called "democracy" that comes from the White House.   The  president
of the United States of America  is a  Christian,  he  goes to prayer breakfasts a lot  and  he  quotes the Bible.
YEAH, RIGHT!     Politicians  are  not  gods!    Watch  them.    Make them accountable for how our taxes are spent!
We're the richest country in the world with homeless people, poverty, high unemployment, and a lousy healthcare system.
Why can't we be like Canada's  health care system?     Fight for justice!    Here in America, we have the insurance gangsters,
the banking gangsters, the medical gangsters, and the politician gangsters who make a "killing" on American invasions and
starting "New Vietnams".   Did you ever wonder why the U.S. sent troops to Vietnam?    I asked a vet of Vietnam who is
opposed to the war in Iraq  (so am I), why was the U.S. involved in Vietnam?    He gave me a surprising answer.   I  never
thought he would say this.    I couldn't believe my ears.   I  said I would  do some research  on his answer, but it shocked me.     
He said:   "We  were  in Vietnam  for  their oil."          I went off on a tangent, but that's OK.   Here's  the  bottom line:

A man says,"I hate  my  mother-in-law,  can  I still  get into  heaven?"     NO!!!     Sounds like a joke, right?  
It's no joke..."NO!"        Almighty God, the Creator, is  opposed  to  racism,  fear,  hatred, unforgiveness,   slavery
(which is still going on today)!

Article / editorial  by    B.T. Firebird

 

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