JESUS IS A BLACK MAN - AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

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She touches on the notion of white
supremacy being used in Christianity to
colonize and control before and during
slavery. Despite white people using
Christianity to justify their wrongdoings,
black people found their own way of
practicing it to seek liberation.


Historically, white Jesus has been


used to oppress and erase the


histories of people of colour in a way


that Korean Jesus or black Jesus has


not.


Ramsey's point isn't that Christianity is
bad because it's been misused to
oppress. But rather that white power
structures excluded images of Jesus with
a darker complexion to spread racial
bias.


"While a Korean or a black Jesus might
not be historically accurate as black
history has been altered just so a blonde-
haired, blue-eyed Jesus is not historically
accurate.

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