![]() Perkins, who identifies as a black Mormon, dates the genesis of the debate even farther than that, to the 19th century. ![]() “Cone, former AME church Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, and Marcus Garvey began asking ‘where is our black God?’ when whites were saying their God is white and Asians were saying their God is yellow.” “They were suggesting that Jesus is where black people are,” he said. He said individuals like James Cone and other liberation theology architects began a “Jesus is black” push, but they were not referring to his phenotype. The debate over Jesus’ race dates back to the late 60s, around the civil rights movement, according to Lomax. “It might not hold up to scholarship, but what John dreamt was clear. But you get these descriptions of wooly hair and feet of brass,” he said. “We have been conditioned to water it down.
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