first: there are no black (or white (or yellow!)) people. It’s a colonial and racist heritage to talk about “black people”.
2nd: There were christian communities (or kingdoms) in africa before anybody in europe (let alone americas) heard about jesus
We acknowledge that the way we divide ethnic genetic variety into different races is a social construct, entirely invented by humans. But denying that race exists at all does no favors to the victims of racism.
I’m pretty sure Europeans heard about Jesus when Peter became Bishop of Rome in the first century.
yes, you’re right. Looks like it was simultaneous.
I was thinking of a more gradual expansion towards Europe through Syria, Anatolia, Byzantium &c. They don’t need to establish their religion to run to Rome and tell people there about Jesus. Thank you for taking the time to correct what i wrote and what i had in mind.
This is patently untrue and a form erasure.
There are black Americans. If you talk to them, and ask if they are African American they will tell you no, because they are not African. They are just Americans. Same as the are white Americans.
You don’t get to choose.
i know that in “America”, still to day, people who are “imported” from Africa during colonialism are called “black”. Racial theories of the past are banalized today.
This right here is racism. The “I know where black people came from.” Racism. The micro-agressions of erasing a swath of people’s existence. The inability to even say the word slavery, denying an entire sorrid period of American history. The fucking audacity to say that a black or African or African Americans lived existence is trivializing their past.
i don’t have “black friends”. i have friends that have different skin colors (if that’s what you need to read to continue to feel uncomfortable with what i write).
