Often provoking the establishment with his
penchant for flaunting heretical truth, the lectures and books
by the uncompromising scholar, Kersey Graves, were frequently
suppressed and sometimes banned. First published in 1875, one
such book, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, continued
to be a clandestine best seller for nearly a century, despite
vigorous suppression. On page 56, Kersey declares: "There
is as much evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man,
or at least a dark man...and that evidence is the testimony of
his disciples, who had nearly as good an opportunity of knowing
what his complexion was as the evangelists, who omit to say anything
about it. In the pictures and portraits of Christ by the early
Christians, he is uniformly represented as being black. And to
make this the more certain, the red tinge is given to the lips;
and the only text in the Christian bible quoted by orthodox Christians
as describing his complexion, represent it as being black."
[underlines added] Kersey asks what would happen if Christ made
his second advent to earth as expected by Christians, "and
that he comes in the character of a sable Messiah, how would
he be received by our negro-hating Christians...? Would they
worship a negro God? Let us imagine he enters one of our fashionable
churches...what would be the results? Would the sexton show him
to a seat? Would he not rather point to the door, and exclaim,
'Get out of here; no place here for niggers?' What a ludicrous
series of ideas is thus suggested by the thought that Jesus Christ
was a 'darkey.' "
The Turin Shroud, a fraud
Purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus, the Turin Shroud has
been proven to be a fraud. Carbon dating indicates the Shroud
did not exist at the time of the Fourth Crusade (1204).1
The story is thoroughly documented in Turin Shroud by Picknett
and Prince, who writes, "there is no historical evidence
that the Shroud is older than at the very best reckoning
650 years." 2
An ancient Roman coin depicts Christ's
Afrikan identity
In the British Museum, an ancient gold coin shows Christ as an
Afrikan with tightly curled, woolly hair and a cross behind him.3
This coin was minted under the second reign of Roman Emperor,
Justinian II who ruled at two separate times, separated by ten
years (685-695 and 705-711 A.D.). During his first reign, the
gold coins he had minted depicted Christ as a straight-haired
European. During his second reign, he had the Christ-image on
the coin changed to an Africoid image in order to ensure that
this depiction was more in keeping with the original traditions
of the Byzantine Church,4 which commonly portrayed Jesus
as an Afrikan. The obverse side of the coin shows Justinian with
a cross behind him also. The Cambridge Encyclopedia wrote: "Whatever
the fact, this coin places beyond dispute the belief that Jesus
Christ was a Negro. The coin is otherwise of great historical
interest, for it was the cause of a war between Justinian and
Abdula Malik, 5th caliph of the Omniads, the former demanding
tribute to be paid in these same coins and the latter refusing."
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