True or False
True or False: Jesus is a white man.
False! (Jesus the man is a 1st-century Palestinian Jew)
Niger, Cyrene, and Cush, are all places that mean what?
"Black"
(Reference, Page 12)
What is "whitewashing"?
Refers to using media, education, literature, revisionist history, and others to paint everything in White and Western Culture.
In the times of the bible, people volunteered to be servants to...
To pay debts they owed
What church did Richard Allen and Absalom Jones establish in 1794 due to a supposed integrated church removing blacks from service?
The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
(Reference, page 79)
True or False: "Black history starts in the bible."
True
In the bible, what major event happened in Egypt?
God's deliverance of Israel through Moses.
What is white supremacy?
That white people are the superior race (which they're not :)
How did European colonizers of Africa use the bible story of the curse of Ham?
"...white people used the curse Ham receive from his father, Noah, as justification to enslave and abuse black bodies."
(reference, page 15)
"The Black Church was considered the first successful ________"?
"revolt of black people against racism"
(Reference, page 77)
True or False: White European colonizers thought they were doing the will of God, helping the uncivilized man in Africa.
True
Reference, pages 47-49)
What slave trade lasted longer than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
(lasted 17 centuries)
What is Black Inferiority?
The false belief that Blacks were inferior to Whites in everything.
In the Slave Bible, what parts of the bible were white slave owners were removed?
Stories of liberation, freedom, and hope.
Because of the strength of the Black Church, this prominent movement occurred.
The Civil Rights Movement
True or False: The God of the oppressors was the same God of the bible.
False!
Which African unconquered country freely accepted Christianity?
Ethiopia
How did Jesus identify with the oppressed?
He did so by becoming a man without sin as a minority, oppressed by Rome. Later, he was betrayed by his own people and crucified, bearing the chastisement for our peace in the process.
(Reference, page 57)
What type of slavery did America participate in?
Chattel Slavery
What was the importance of the Imago Dei for Black Christians?
"Black Christians refused to be members of segregated churches and held America to its creed of equality based on their doctrine of humanity."
(Reference, page83)
True or False: Christianity is NOT a copycat of ancient, mystery religions.
True!
(reference, page 38)
"blacken"
Double Jeopardy: How does the promotion of a White Jesus in Western Culture harm Christianity?
It 1) portrays a Jesus that can't relate to blacks, 2) it reminds some of an image hung in living rooms of those that hated them, and 3) twists the truth of Jesus into something he's not.
(Reference, page 56-57)
Double Jeopardy: In the Slave Bible, ____ of the Old Testament was missing, and ____ from the New Testament.
90% in the OT, and 50% in the NT
The phrase, "God is good, all the time" speaks to what aspect of God?
The Sovereignty of God