Black Jesus v White Jesus

Hello black folk...I'am the Lord.

Yeah...sooooo anyways, yesterday sucked and my forearm is sensitive right now (I slipped on a piece of ice and smashed this thing with my rock hard elbow...but it doesn't feel rock hard right now) and today is gloomy and drizzely-n-shit. Whatevah...

I've been reading about Black Liberation Theology for a couple of hours now and my brain needs defragging. This is what I have so far...Black Liberation theology is like the Protestant Reformation in that it is a revolution from the white Christian powers that be, the powers that the founders of BLT believed were more about self preservation (that's you Vatican) than about God. In fact the BLT shifted from god to Jesus because they believed that Jesus was more about the po' peeps and an Exodus kinda thingy (one of their messages is the liberation from suffering here on earth, as opposed to getting yours in the afterlife.). Of course that is not what I wanna talk about.

First of all BLT is a new interpretation of the Jesus Cult. The fact that there are so many interpretations, to me, means that there is no one true word of God. If there was a thing as the true word of God, then wouldn't there be only one interpretation (yes).

This second thing is kinda cool. One of the dudes that invented BLT, James Cone, was all WTF, why should gettho brotha's-n-sista's worship a white European Jesus God that looks exactly like the very people that has enslaved blacks stolen form Africa. That is cool, this is where he gets it wrong-ville.

"It's very important because you've got a lot of white images of Christ. In reality, Christ was not white, not European. That's important to the psychic and to the spiritual consciousness of black people who live in a ghetto and in a white society in which their lord and savior looks just like people who victimize them. God is whatever color God needs to be in order to let people know they're not nobodies, they're somebodies." 

If Jesus is God and the holy ghost at the same time, then God cannot be whatever color one wants God to be. If there was a dude named Jesus walking around in hot dusty old Palestine of the day, and he looked like the average Jew, then he looked like this...

That's all I got today.

* Black Liberation Theology