Unapologetically Black & Unapologetically Christian... DEAL WITH IT!

ATTENTION: To those of you who are not Christians but say Christianity is "the white man's religion", constantly bring up the letter "J" being 500-years old as a claim to try an invalidate the name "Jesus" even though you use the letter "j" everyday as a part of your English speaking vocabulary while never changing your "j" containing names (if you have one) to any of the j-less alphabets that existed before then like the Hebrew, Phoenician, or Greek (especially seeing that most who mention it can't speak those languages), to those who say those of us of color who are Christians are "coons or sellouts and agents" brainwashed by the religion of white slave masters, and say we have no knowledge of self, are sleep or lost, but also try to tell us how "good Christians" are suppose to act when we say or do something you don't like, disagree with, or can't handle... let me say to you:

SHUT YOUR IGNORANT LIPS AND LYING TONGUES BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. Non Christians who are against the faith and are enemies of the Cross of Christ have no place ever trying to criticize Christians on how to be Christians or what God expects of us, and everybody who claims to be a Christian from the pulpit to the parking lot doesn't represent Christ in spirit and in truth. 

STOP blaming Christianity for racism when racism is the fault of mankind and not of God at all. Mankind misuses all religions or humanistic ideologies for his own corrupt ends, but that doesn't make the truth contained therein illegitimate. What is used to oppress one can also be used to liberate another depending on who's using it and how. Black folks didn't start becoming subdued and docile until they accepted "integration" in place of "desegregation" and confused equal opportunity with assimilation which led to us being integrated so much that we began selling out on having economic independence and controlling the politics of our local communities as do other ethnicities. 

STOP lying on our ancestors as being weak and "brainwashed" by what you erroneously call "The White Man's Religion" when they were strong enough to get you here and fight for you. It is a lie to say they believed or accepted the lies they were told in mass. They rejected and made a clear distinction between the twisted racist theology of the slave masters and the liberating truth of Christ revealed in the Holy Bible. This is why our slave ancestors weren't allowed to read and their masters didn't actually want them to convert to Christianity because they knew the keys to their revolt & freedom were contained in the scriptures.  

1st CORINTHIANS 7:21 (NET); "Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity." SLAVERY WAS NEVER THE MOST HIGH'S INTENTION BUT IT WAS AN INVENTION OF MAN, AND UNTIL MAN WAS READY TO MAKE A FULL TRANSITION FROM IT IN EVERY CULTURE ON EARTH IN WHICH IT WAS PRACTICED AS WELL AS OTHER CUSTOMS, BEFORE AND OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE, YAH GAVE LAWS FOR CIVILITY IN THE TREATMENT OF SLAVES AND EVEN MADE IT ILLEGAL TO TAKE A RUNAWAY SLAVE BACK TO THEIR MASTER. WHAT WAS THEN IS NOT NOW, AND YOU DON'T LIVE BACK THEN SO KEEP YOUR FOCUS ON NOW WHERE WE'RE ALL MEANT TO BE FREE!

EXODUS 21:16 (KJV); “And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”

DEUTERONOMY 23:15-16 (NET); "You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you. 16) Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him." WE ARE NOT BRAINWASHED MODERN DAY SLAVES WHO WERE TRICKED INTO BELIEVING IN CHRIST, BUT NOR ARE WE BRAINWASHED BLACK FOLKS WHO BELIEVE IN RELIGIONS THAT ENSLAVED US FIRST LIKE ISLAM DID, OR IN THOSE THAT DIDN'T PREVENT US FROM BEING ENSLAVED LIKE ANCESTOR WORSHIP, KEMET, OR ANY FORM OF JUDAISM SUCH AS BEING A SO CALLED "HEBREW ISRAELITE". CHRISTIANITY WAS ALREADY IN AFRICA LONG BEFORE SLAVERY AND BEFORE A EUROPEAN EVER OPENED A BIBLE TO READ A WORD TO ANY OF OUR SLAVE ANCESTORS. 

We are CHRISTIANS because we have faith in God through Christ Yeshua (Jesus) just like our ancestors who believed in the true Christ of the Bible, and not the false one they were taught by slave masters. We are CHRISTIANS because we have faith in God through Christ Yeshua (Jesus) just like our ancestors who sung Negro spirituals as coded messages to other slaves of their strategies to obtain their freedom, and held secret Church services of their own because most of them were not actually allowed to attend Church services and were forced to work on Sundays. 

We are CHRISTIANS because we have faith in God through Christ Yeshua (Jesus) just like our ancestors who when they were allowed to have Church services that were monitored by whites during slavery and the Jim Crow era they preached one message when their oppressors were present but preached a fiery Bible based message of revolution after they were gone which galvanized our people and led them to freedom when no Islam, Egyptian Kemet, Ancestor worship, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other "ism" was around to be found in helping them. Do you not know that the scriptures state that Christ's skin tone was as fine brass burned in a furnace? Here's a picture inserted below to show you what that looks like:

REVELATION 1:14-15 (KJV); "His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15) And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters." 

The above scriptures gives a description of what we commonly know as a "BLACK MAN", so how could "CHRISTIANITY" be "THE WHITE MAN'S RELIGION" if the object of worship at the center of it is a "BLACK MAN"? DO YOU REALLY THINK WHITE PEOPLE WHO YOU CLAIM HATE ALL BLACK PEOPLE WOULD WORSHIP A BLACK GOD? The fact that white European historians and artists of later ages went through so much trouble to white wash the actual Christ is proof of the power of Christianity as the truth because only the truth is attacked this much. It is so much the truth that white Europeans & Asians felt inferior but couldn't deny it so they changed the face of God in Christ to look more like them than like us. They then changed Christianity into "Roman Catholicism" almost a full 300-years after Christ, which later split into many different denominations, and then regurgitated this corrupt form of Christianity back to those they colonized and enslaved, but by then the gospel had already been in Africa and Middle Asia first long before this happened in order to preserve the truth. 

A lie always sprints out front while the truth runs a marathon but the truth can't be stopped no matter how hard you try and it is built to last for all eternity long after the lies have been proven wrong and cease to exist. We are CHRISTIANS because we have faith in God through Christ Yeshua (Jesus) just like our ancestors who fought, rebelled, marched, suffered, bled, died, and kept fighting so that we would have the rights we have now and the opportunity to keep fighting for what is rightfully ours. You can't win anything for the Black Community without us, haven't made any progress as a people without us, and we have been at the forefront of every movement for our good. 

We are CHRISTIANS because we have faith in God through Christ Yeshua (Jesus) just like our ancestors of whom most couldn't read to know the history of translation or transliteration and understand that languages, alphabets, and words evolve with changing cultures. While the letter "J" may be the most recent of those many evolutions out of the letters "I" and "Y", so is the letter "U" which developed from the letter "V", the letter "W" which developed from double "VV", and also the letter "G" which developed from the letter "C". Illiterate and uneducated slaves didn't know that, and most of you just now learned all of that by reading this, but one thing those Bible believing slaves did believe was that praying by faith and putting that faith into action in the name of "JESUS" worked and would help bring about their freedom and that of their descendants. 

God Almighty isn't confused about his name and he responds to faith in every language that his name is called; not just in the Hebrew language. He isn't stuck in the past or behind the times like some of you are but he makes the times and is far ahead of them so update yourself instead of trying to criticize what you only study to try disproving or don't understand for what was and for what is. As much as you criticize us all other philosophies have no leg or a peg to stand on as being superior or more righteous because they have just as many bad elements among them but not nearly as many good ones. In fact, none of the stuff some of you want to go back to Africa for stopped us from being enslaved and brought to the Americas by Europeans or from first being enslaved by Arabs and converted to Islam 700-years prior and for nearly another 200-years after slaves stopped being transported from Africa to the West. Again, Christianity was in Africa first long before it was in Europe or Islam even existed.

WE earned our place and our right as a major part of the Black Community and you won't have a Black Community without us so stop trying to insult us or disassociate us from the community we helped to build more than any others and make up the bulk of among the religious, the educated, the cultured, and the successful. We are Black brothers & sisters who are not "sleep", coons, agents, sellouts, sambos, Uncle Toms, niggas and all the despicable terms you call us more than anyone else while proclaiming how you love Black people but play into the hands of white supremacy as their "agent" every time you attack us or someone's freewill expression of faith through their forgiveness or protest.

We don't all agree or see things the same way even among the Christian Community, but in feeble attempts to make your invalid and uneducated points you lump us all in together when an unscrupulous preacher does wrong, or foolishly mock the LORD asking where is he when you don't want anything to do with him anyway so why bother asking, and then you attack us all which further divides the Black community and proves you to be liars and hypocrites of wanting Black Unity, progress, equality, or believing in Black Love. Love it or hate it, and post as many derogatory slanderous memes, vids, and false history that you want but we BLACK CHRISTIANS ARE HERE TODAY AS WE WERE YESTERDAY AND WILL BE HERE TOMORROW AND UNTIL THE LORD RETURNS TO PROVE WHO WAS RIGHT AND WHO WAS WRONG. 

I'm not going to stop believing in my God or change my faith for some knuckleheads in African kinte cloth or for those wearing Egyptian ankhs talking about "Black Power" but slander other Black folks more and far worst than any white supremacist. I want what is right for Black folks too, but I'm just not as hateful as you are in going about it to get it. To those reading this who are Christians, we got it right so stick with the LORD and trust in his Holy Word.

BEING A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT COMPROMISE YOUR BLACKNESS, BUT ENHANCES IT. Christianity isn't the "white man's religion", but it is God Almighty's plan of salvation for every person no matter what color they are. All the messengers of the Holy Scriptures were men and women of color. Frederick Douglass was a Christian minister and perhaps the greatest abolitionist of all as was Marcus Garvey who is the father of the Pan-African movement and creator of the famous "RBG" or "Red, Black, & Green" flag. We're in good company so don't you ever let the ignorant and hateful make you ashamed of your Christian faith or your beautiful blackness, because they go very well together. 

We are CHRISTIANS because we have faith in God through Christ Yeshua (Jesus) just like our ancestors who knelt down to pray unto the Most High in faith and then got up and put that faith into action even if it cost them their lives. They weren't wimpy, docile, subdued, or brainwashed but were strong, valiant, courageous, full of faith, and driven by their love for the LORD, their love for the oncoming generations, and their desire for both themselves and us to be free as our God given right. For my Lord & God Yeshua Moshiach (Jesus Christ) I live, and for him I die. Shalom.  ~ I.J West

1st PETER 4:16 (ESV); "Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name."