[Scenic Sounds]

Through Nomadic Eyes

[dfwgator]

Adam and Eve were Black. Hey, that means we are all black. Where's my reparations?

[metoooo]

i didn't know nazareans were black...

[Revolting cat!]

He looks Mexican to me!

[GigaDittos]

Is it me, or is this guy reading out a different Bible? Can someone cite Revelation 13:20 for me?

[savedbygrace]

On a related note, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson had the longest lines at his autograph booth during the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Charlotte, NC, last week.

At least that was my impression. Carmen had some pretty long lines, too, but I think Peterson edged him out.

On topic, it doesn't matter what Jesus' skin color was.

[nmh]

Hmmmm ... since when are middle eastern Jews considered BLACK? Being born over there He was most likely had an olive skin color with dark hair and either blue or brown eyes.

[nmh]

"This purposely omitted fact is that Jesus was not a European white man. Jesus Christ was a black man - a dark skinned Hebrew Israelite from Northern Africa and even the only Biblical physical description confirms this (Rev. 13:20)," said Shabazz.

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Ah, Shabazz there is NO Revelation 13:20.

Geesh, can't even get your lies straight. Some of us really DO know the Bible.

[killjoy]

Temple of the Black Jesus

[R. Scott]

A Black African Semite?
Oh well, they same bunch claim the Ptolemy dynasty (Greek) was black.

[ZULU]

"a dark skinned Hebrew Israelite from Northern Africa "

This blather from black racists NEVER stops.

"All the Egyptians were black. All North Africans were and are black. Hebrews were black because they came from Egypt. The Greeks learned everything from black Egyptians. Hannibal was black. If someone isn't a blonde, blue-eyed Norweigan, they are, by definition black."


Personally, Jesus' Life and message were more important than his skin pigmentation or lack therof.

But for the benefit of the black racists out there, if there are any, the Hebrews were Semites. The Semites were Caucasoids. That means that they had Caucasian features, not Negroid features (sorry to use that term, but "black" and "white" simply have no real releveance in this discourse.) North Africans that lived along the Mediterranean were also Caucasoids, not Negroid. Hannibal was a Cathaginian. Carthaginians were Phoenician colonists in North Africa, and hence were Semites and Caucasoids, not Negroids. The Ancient Egyptians were mainly Caucasoids, but there was a strong Negroid element present, especially in the southern part near Kush - modern day Sudan and southern Egypt. There was even a black pharaonic dynastry but they were from Kush. Looking at Egyptian statuary and paintings, the people were Caucasiod and Negroid. The Ancient Egyptians usually painted themselves brown or red-brown for Egyptian men and yellow or white for Egyptian women. When they meant to portray Negroid Ancient Egyptians or Kushites, you could tell clearly from their appearance. And then there were obvious mixtures of the two, some of which appear even as pharoahs.

The Berbers, the indigenous people of northern Africa along the Mediterranean Coast were Caucasoid, so were the ancient Libyans.

Having said all that, these people had darker complections than most Europeans and dark hair and eyes, although there were exceptions at both ends of the pigmentation spectrum - people moved around even back then, and miscegenation was not considered a crime or looked down upon in any way.
For instance, the Ancient Egyptians did not view the world in terms of black and white, but in terms of Egyptian ans Non-Egyptian. And Moses had a Kushite wife.

I wish these idiot racists would crawl back under whatever rock they were hiding under. They have more in common with the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation than they would like to admit. The only distinction lies in pigmentation, not thought processes.

[goldstategop]

They could have settled the fracas by giving Al Sharpton an extras part. ;-)