"GOD IS BLACK " Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1833**1915) Motherland (film)

Directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Produced by Betelihem Zelealem
Written by Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Starring Kimani Nehusi
Molefi Kete Asante
Maulana Karenga
Wangari Maathai
Mohamed Ibn Chambas
Francis Cress Welsing
Amiri Baraka
Hakim Adi
Meles Zenawi
Jacob Zuma
Adama Samassekou
Haki R. Madhubuti
Music bySona Maya Jobarteh
Ocacia
Distributed byHalaqah Media Distribution Co.
Release date(s)February 11, 2010
Running time118 min.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_McNeal_Turner

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1833***1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Turner was born "free" in Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina .
During the American Civil War he was appointed a Chaplain to one of the first Federal regiments of black troops (Company B of the First United States Colored Troops). This appointment came directly from President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. He was also appointed by President Andrew Johnson to work with the Freedman's Bureau in Georgia during Reconstruction.

He was known as a fiery orator and he scandalized many Americans when he preached that God was black.
Here are his words:
"We have as much right biblically and otherwise to believe that God is a Negroe, as you buckra or white people have to believe that God is a fine looking, symmetrical and ornamented white man. For the bulk of you and all the fool Negroes of the country believe that God is white-skinned, blue eyed, straight-haired, projected nosed, compressed lipped and finely robed white gentleman, sitting upon a throne somewhere in the heavens. Every race of people who have attempted to describe their God by words, or by paintings, or by carvings, or any other form or figure, have conveyed the idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves, and why should not the Negroe believe that he resembles God."
When, in 1883, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1875, forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public places, was unconstitutional, Turner was incensed:
"The world has never witnessed such barbarous laws entailed upon a free people as have grown out of the decision of the United States Supreme Court, issued October 15, 1883. For that decision alone authorized and now sustains all the unjust discriminations, proscriptions and robberies perpetrated by public carriers upon millions of the nation's most loyal defenders. It fathers all the 'Jim-Crow cars' into which colored people are huddled and compelled to pay as much as the whites, who are given the finest accommodations. It has made the ballot of the black man a parody, his citizenship a nullity and his freedom a burlesque. It has engendered the bitterest feeling between the whites and blacks, and resulted in the deaths of thousands, who would have been living and enjoying life today."
Bishop Turner left a widespread legacy which continues to grow. Turner Theological Seminary, a constituent seminary of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, was named in his honor.
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Henry McNeal Turner on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

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[justkidding485]

god is the creator of everything not just humanity. who says god has a color who says god is even in human form. p.s jesus was middle eastern

[nooobsaibot]

@BlackEducationTV I'm just suspicious of any theology where a god has a "chosen people" since it logically seems to classify those outside that group as less than human.

[BlackEducationTV]

@nooobsaibot Is there a reason why you would think such a thing? Is that what you expect? Would that be fair? Just curious as to your thoughts on this when your question was asked.

[ImmaCRITISIZE]

GOD WAS A BLACK MAN. THERE IS SO MUCH PROOF AND IT IS SO OBVIOUS AND OF COARSE WHITE PEOPLE ARE GONNA DENY BECAUSE THEY WANT GOD TO BE WHITE JUST CAUSE THEIR WHITE, BUT THAT WILL NEVER BE. GOD IS BLACK AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE BLACKK AND WHEN I DIE AND I GO TO HEAVEN I WILL SEE A BLACK GOD.

[nooobsaibot]

So what happens to white people? Extermination? Slavery?

[Abupindjiguiti]

THE BEST MOVIE EVER ABOUT AFRICAN PEOPLE BY AFRICAN PEOPLE WITH ONLY 5 COMMENTS !AFRICAN WE BECOME A SAD PICTURE OF HIMSELFS.

[MulberryMurderMafia]

GOD is NOT black. Hes white... And jesus is mexican. Their servents were black tho.

[Humanoya]

weither god is black or wihite he will punish all type criminals of all type of races!

[LuciferianDemon]

yes nice!!!

hahahah...

nigeria.