When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their information? All white people who have studied history and geography know that Christ was a black man. Only the poor, brainwashed American Negro has been made to believe that Christ was white, to maneuver him into worshiping the white man. After becoming a Muslim in prison, I read almost everything I could put my hands on in the prison library. I began to think back on everything I had read and especially with the histories, I realized that nearly all of them read by the general public have been made into white histories. I found out that the history-whitening process either had left out great things that black men had done, or some of the great black men had gotten whitened. Malcolm X
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The whitewashing of history has left out important things the world would not have known if it were not for black people. The general public listens to news sources that whitewash history in order to make the world feel better about itself. The idea that blacks have been made to believe that Christ was white disregards the truth of how black people have been taught to view Christ. Christianity has played a large part in how black people view themselves and their place in the world. Black people have a stereotype of a white Jesus, a stereotype that has been ingrained into their heads from an early age.

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