By Simba Jama

AS we are now in the festive season, of Christmas and the New Year, I thought it opportune and intellectually rewarding for us to revisit the story of Jesus Christ with a view to disputing the lie that Jesus was a white man.
The introduction of Christianity in Zimbabwe is usually traced back to the time of colonisation, beginning in the 1500’s when the Portuguese attempted to colonise the country and first introduced Roman Catholicism through the likes of Goncalo Da Silveira.
When the British gained world influence in the late 1800’s, another wave of missionaries, this time from the Anglican, Lutheran and other protestant churches invaded Zimbabwe using the Bible and the gun. While this was happening the so-called Jews were also active spreading their own religion seeking to dominate other people’s cultures.
The first of the Christian converts in Africa were generally regarded as sellouts by the indigenous people and would usually work as spies and agents for the white missionaries.
Thus the introduction of Western Christianity to black people was not seen in good light.
Little has changed since then although large numbers of Africans have since turned to Christianity as they Nicodemously abandoned their own religion.
Meanwhile, blacks cannot get over the fact that the people who were initially responsible for their enslavement were the people calling themselves Jews today. from Page 1
Black Americans cannot get over the fact that the first slave ship used to take them away from their homeland (West Africa) was called the Good Sheep Jesus.
The truth is that none of the whites, including those who enslaved Africans, have ancestral roots in any of the great prophets of the Bible.
The Bible is a record of the history and laws of Israel, a black man.
The descendants of Israel have remained black to this day.
The Hebrew people are Shemites who sprang from Eber, who is an ancestor of Abraham.
According to the Bible, in the days of Eber, our languages were split from one common tongue, and thus Eber called his son Peleg (Separated).
The place where our languages were confused was called Babel (Babylon) and the descendants of Eber were now known as Hebrews.
The Hebrew people were indistinguishable from Egyptians from the time of Abraham, to the time of Paul and beyond.
Now if all these men were black, how is it possible that the man they call Jesus whose ancestors were black and lived in that time, is today portrayed as a white man?
Hebrews observe traditions that are very similar to African traditional practices.
These include animal sacrifices, sacred mountains, ancestral remembrance ceremonies, feast of harvests and so on.
The Pass Over ceremony involves roasting a whole male goat/sheep over fire at twilight, using no salt, and burning any bones and remains before daybreak.
The above described is no different from the many traditional Shona festivals, for example.
The Hebrews also observe Sabbath days, months and years which is done to give rest to the land, people, and animals.
Africans are no different.
Christmas is not a Hebrew holiday.
The Hebrews were known for keeping to their culture and traditions, and thus there is no way, that Jesus himself would observe a holiday like Christmas, and we shall soon find out why.
It is important to note that ‘Jesus Christ’ was not a name, but a title which meant ‘The Anointed Saviour’. Jesus is Greek for Yahshua which means Saviour or Messiah.
Christ meant the Anointed and was derived from the Hebrew word ‘Cannabosm’ which meant ‘sweet cane herbs’.
These sweet cane herbs were the key ingredients in Israel’s anointing oil of kingship and Cannabosm eventually became Cannabis in English.
Yahshua was a Nazarene.
A Nazarene as written by Moses, was a man who took a Nazarene vow which involved the following: abstaining from alcohol and strong drink, not using a comb, blade or razor on your head or beard, and letting your hair grow into locks.
Examples of such Nazarenes are Samuel, Samson, Yahshua and his disciples.
The Nazarene vow by definition is separation for the service of the Lord.
It is quite clear that the black man’s hair which is curly and wooly, can easily grow into locks, thus this also confirms the Israelites identity as black people.
Otherwise why would the Israelites have a vow of keeping locks if they belonged to the white race which has straight and long hair?
Long before Yahshua lived some 2 000 odd years ago, there had been a number of people who had seen him in visions and prophesied his coming.
Enoch, who was 7th from Adam, was the first to proclaim that a Saviour would come and would be born among men.
Enoch called him the Son of Man and this is a title Yahshua often used in reference to himself.
By the time of Daniel who lived 300 years before Yahshua, descriptions had been given of this coming Saviour and such were his looks; feet like bronze (like they had been in a furnace), hair pure as wool, and eyes red like fire.
The colour of bronze is bright reddish brown, the look of the typical man they call black today.
The Israelites measure the purity of hair by its wooliness and we have already seen how wooly hair is an attribute of the black man.
The red eyes were probably due to the anointing oil which Yahshua regularly used.
Yahshua was a black man like his forefathers and it is not only the Christians who have heard of his coming.
All the other religions portray the Saviour as a black man even outside of Africa.
In Yahshua’s time, around the time of his birth, it was even written that three wise men from the distant East were following a star in search of the Messiah.
Since Judea is already close to the Middle East, these wise men could have been from as far east as China. This is not so farfetched because until this day, there are prophesies of a coming Saviour in China and other parts of Asia.
He is known as the future Buddha and there are many depictions of him in many ancient temples in Asia and America.
Most of these depictions are in stone and they are not depictions of an Asian or European man, but a black man.
In south east Asia the Christ is known as ‘Murukbul’, in Islam he is known as ‘Al Medhi’ and to the native Americans he is known as ‘Kukulcan’.
In all these places, the Christ is depicted as a black man, with dark skin, broad nose, large eyes, wooly hair and even locks.
Like Yahshua, all the stories of the coming Saviour are associated with a tree of enlightenment.
This is the tree of life and the tree of wisdom in the Bible.
It is the bodhidharma of the Buddha and the tree of life of Kukulcan.
Africans are fighting in vain for liberation, if they do not eventually face the reality that the Saviour they read about in the bible is not a white man, but a black man.
Not an Arab, Chinese, Indian or European, but a black man!
The Saviour comes in the image of our Creator, and our Creator made man from clay, which is black.
It is no use liberating your land and the economy when at the end of the day, you kneel before a white man they call Jesus.
In the next few articles we shall be looking at how the Romans destroyed the black Judeans and how they not only killed Yahshua, but how they have used his name in vain and how they invented the heathen doctrine they now call Christianity.