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The Race of Jesus.

Henry Johnson LR
2 min readDec 24, 2018

Growing up as a boy, I never understood why so many African and Black Christians ✝️ thought that Jesus was a “WHITE MAN,” and looks like Brad Pitt. I have been trying to figure this out since I was a boy, and those thoughts haunted me. That something was fundamentally wrong after the Bible’s settings were in the Middle East.

JESUS WAS A “MIDDLE EASTERN” man.

The Colonization and brainwashing have been real since the Scramble for Africa. As I traveled to the East, those ideologies of being “FAIR” skin and accepting a “GOD” who looks that way, has come to become a reality, for so many, in the churches that I visited while there. And because of this madness, (something that I come to call Sammy Sosa’s syndrome) “bleached skin” is more acceptable over dark skin, brown, or yellow skin.

You can see on the Map that Israel is in the Middle East and close to Africa more than Europe.

The self-hate, without loving oneself, one’s unique African or Asian culture, but embracing the next man’s. DISTURBING! We can never truly live a fulfilling life when we hate ourselves and try to be or act like the next man. To break this Christmas news to all of my Christian friends, Jesus wasn’t White: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Meaning, that Christians worship a “MIDDLE EASTERN” man, not the one that the Colonizers sold to the rest of the world.

Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.

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