cyberdad wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Pretty much. Black reverse racists have LONG sought to claim the Holy Land as being Black. White "forward" racists are only now just getting into the act, and ALSO claiming the Holy Land, but for light skinned Anglo Whites. Both both fly in the face of history.
The actual reason for afrocentricism in the US is because of Jim Crow, In the mind of an African American during the height of the Jim Crow era a swarthy Aramaic speaking Jesus with tight curly black hair might be perceived as "black", The same with Egyptian Pharoahs and dark skinned Sumerian and Indian civilisations (the latter occupies an enormous volume of literature and videos but is farcical since genetically Africans are closer to southern Europeans than they are to Asians).
If the real jesus tried to migrate to America he would have been thrown back on the boat at Ellis Island

Not sure what you're saying.
There is Afrocentrism (which can go overboard but isnt necessarily wrong or bad), and there was also the creating of ideologies of reverse racism against White (like the founding of the Black Muslims). Obviously both started in the 1960s as a reaction against the centuries of anti Black racism in the US. That goes without saying because every American knows that. So you're just stating the obvious.
This Qanon thing about "Whites are descended from the Biblical Jews" is Trump era stupidity without any rhyme or reason that I can see.
Its not obvious to me why Jesus would have been rejected at Ellis Island. Nor why you're talking about Ellis Island in the present tense. Ellis Island shut down as an immigrant processing center almost a century ago. Its now just a museum.
The rules about immigration into the US changed over time. And at the turn of the 20th century there were limits on how many folks they could allow in for each country. And ethnic prejudice factored in which nationalities got higher or lower quotas. But even so- during the era of Ellis Island forty million folks entered the US from all over Europe and fair number from the Middle East.
If the Lebanese Poet Khalil Gibran (Lebanese Arab) could make it through Ellis Island in circa 1900 then I dont see why Jesus wouldnt have been allowed into America as well ( as long as the quota for his native Palestine hadnt been topped)because Jesus would have been perceived as being of the same "race" as Gibran, and thousands of others from the Mediterranean who made it off the boat here in the same era.
American immigration was almost shut down mid century after they closed Ellis Island. But then in 1964 Congress passed civil rights legislation forbidding racial discrimination. And the courts determined that the quotas for nations for immigration were unlawful. So we started to allow folks from everywhere to arrive here. So in the present day there would be no reason to bar Jesus on racial grounds. But even back in 1900 when they were selective based upon nationality Jesus would probably have been allowed in (unless he had criminal record).