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Title: First Black Jesus Movie Aims To Unite Blacks And Jews
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WDC MEDIA NEWS
URL Source: http://www.wdcmedia.com/newsArticle.php?ID=1251
Published: May 31, 2006
Author: WDC MEDIA
Post Date: 2006-06-01 08:01:27 by Mind_Virus
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Comments: 109
First Black Jesus Movie Aims To Unite Blacks And Jews 2006-05-31 -- WDC MEDIA NEWS (LOS ANGELES) -- "Color of the Cross," a Nu-Lite Entertainment production, is an independent, biblically charged religious biopic based on the last 48 hours of Christ’s life and stands to be the most controversial depiction of Jesus to date. In this gripping, two-hour epic, Jesus is portrayed as a black Jew. This retelling of the biblical story from a black perspective seeks to repair the anti-Semitism that has been associated with the story of Christ. The inclusion of Black Jews during Passover in the film makes a clear statement toward the shared history of African and the Middle Eastern cultures without being offensive. Unlike "Passion of the Christ," "Color of the Cross" chose not to focus on the bloody torture of Christ’s crucifixion. Instead the film focuses on the human pain and suffering that Christ, the Disciples, and Christ’s family endured. "Color of the Cross" reaches across a cultural divide to inspire and challenge its viewers intellectually. According to the film’s director, Jean Claude LaMarre, "To watch a black man on screen, being referred to as rabbi, or to see him partaking in a Seder meal and observing Passover really blurs the lines that divide blacks and Jews in this country. We are part of the same history." "Color of the Cross" seeks to stimulate and awaken peace and unity between all races of people. Recent programs such as the History Channel’s "Warriors of the Bible" clearly shows the diversity of cultures as they existed in the geographical region where the Bible stories occurred. And like many of the recent programs flooding the media such as the Book of Judas, Ron Howard’s "The Da Vinci Code," etc, "Color of the Cross" also bases its story not just on scriptural interpretation but other historical data with many interpretations pointing to the fact that Christ very well may have been dark skinned. The film will have a theatrical release in October 2006. Revealing clips and exclusive information can be found at: http://www.colorofthecross.com/ Note to the Editors -- The film is a Nu-Lite Entertainment production, and producers are Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray, Jessie Levostre, Kenneth Halsband, Executive Producers Lila Aviv, Paul Noe, Edy Lahens, Marc Porterfield, Michele Gonda and Co-producer Marcello Thedford.
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#4. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
Po' dumb darkies. The mean average IQ of Africans is 70; for American blacks, 85. Tell them that Jesus was black and they'll believe it. It just makes it easier to others to lead them around by their noses.
This rediculous crap is Storm Front BS, Negroes are just as good as any other part of the human race. Where did you hear this nonsense, Storm Front?
A "nazi" site based out of West Palm Beach has the stink of gefilte fish all over it.
It is one of Don Black's sites, and he is anything but Jewish. Sorry Charlie, but your big lie attempt has all the stink of rotting tuna.
I know. I've never been a fan of Don Black and became even more suspicious of him when I found out this "Nazi" lives in and works in one of the most Jewish sections of America.
Where he lives means almost zero compared to the volumes of hateful crap he is responsible for putting on the Internet and for all the networking of Jew hating and racist creeps he has done. You are going to have to come up with more then a tidbit of questionable circumstantial evidence before I would believe anything as dumb as the notion that Don Black is Jewish or works for anything but and for haters and baiters.
Black isn't Jewish. He works for the ADL, et. al. as a Judas goat. An old friend of mine, Eustace Mullins, told me that in the mid-1950's the ADL approached him and offered him a good chunk of change in exchange for advanced copies of his work and for information on who he was working with. The alternative , they told him, was that he would never be published in mainstream outlets. He turned them down flat. Willis Carto is another Judas goat according to Mullin. Carto was living pretty high on the hog.
You're probably right about Black. He's been around for years. Geniune white supremacists don't last very long in the public eye. Blacks are wise to the Jews. The film may rub some salt on the festering black/white issue, but I doubt much will come of it.
Don Black gets promotional aid from the Village Voice and HBO. Only a fool would believe him to be anything but a Judas goat. --- Black has been using his site to promote the event to the world from his home in downtown West Palm Beach, two miles from the voting action this week at the Emergency Operations Center. Black, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, will be there with his 11-year-old son, Derek (the webmaster of Stormfront for Kids.) Both father and son are featured in the HBO documentary http://Hate.com, airing this week. November 15 - 21, 2000 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0046,ladd2,19934,6.html ---
By 1997, Black's site became home to the Web pages of other extremists, such as Aryan Nations and Ed Fields, racist publisher of The Truth At Last, a hate- filled newspaper. He also posted new reprints of white supremacist articles and essays, such as The Talmud: Judaism's holiest book documented and exposed. Meant to inflame Christians by characterizing the Talmud as primarily anti- Christian and filled with "malice," "hate-mongering" and "barbarities," this particularly scurrilous tract willfully distorts and misrepresents an important religious document while demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of its history, complexity, and role in Jewish religious practice." http://www.adl.org/poisoning_w eb/black.asp Yours' is an example of the big lie technique where one tells such an astoundingly incredulous lie nobody "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Don Black uses non-whites and Jews to spread fear and hatred to create the sort of fear and panic that suspends reason and the process of critical thinking necessary to know that his is a bill of goods unworthy of adopting and living by. Nice try, but you are far from the first foolish shill I have seen do this on the Internet, and no doubt you won't be the last.
Quoting the ADL and Stormfront? You really are a good little commissar wannabe.
Not only that, I admire the good work and advocay of the ADL. They are a fine organization who does good work shining the light on evil entities such as Storm Front and it's owner Don Black. As for what sort of wannabe I am, I am a longtime political activist in real life, not a wannabe. I've used my real name in my postings because I am well known locally and not afraid to say anything I say in forums in real life, because I do. If I hear something that I strongly take issue with in real life, I step right up and take issue with it. I'm not shy. It is in fact something everyone should do.
They've also been caught, a few times, spying on American citizens for Israel's benefit. They're a foreign entity operating on American soil and against the interests of American citizens. I do respect you for being upfront about your allegiance, though the respect is nullified by the allegiance itself. Christine, it appears you have an honest to goodness ADL lackey on your board.
I think I now know who the real mole is. Supporting the ADL? Might as well support AIPAC.
It's the same thing.
Supporting the ADL? Might as well support AIPAC. It's the same thing. I do believe we have a trouble-making leftist troll on this forum. There is no excuse whatsoever for supporting Nelson Mandela and Steven Biko. Might as well support Che' and Castro.
There was no excuse for Steve Biko's brutal murder, nor the harassment of his close friend and associate Donald Wood. and certainly the imprisonment of a man as great as Nelson Mandela will always live as an example of racist tyranny and oppression typical of the Nationalist Party in South Africa of that time. Explain to me what Mandela and/or Biko's alleged crimes are in your eyes? I find your attitude toward them very amusing.
For Mandela, the Church Street Massacre
The Nationalist Party was fond of murdering or imprisoning any and all leadership that developed in the Black community in South Africa. Often they they had only themselves to blame when groups lacking focus and responsible leaders preformed brutal and unnecessary murders often using the nasty technique known as 'necklacing.' Yes, I am aware of the Church Street Massacre. And I am aware that Nelson Mandela is the founder of Umkhonto we Siswe ("Spear of the People"). I am also aware of the Sharpsville Massacre, and the many thousands of Black men women and children killed maimed and tortured under the brutal regime in South Africa that angered people like Mandela to take up arms much as the French resistance did against similar people as an a Xhosa lawyer from the Transkei and others faced off with in the fight to end the oppressive brutality of Apartheid. Americans have little clue what it was like to be forced to live without even citizenship in their own country, to be forced to live in barren concentration camp like "homelands" under this system where men could stay at home and starve with their loved ones or live in same sex barracks getting poverty level wages seeing their families once a year if lucky. When you faced and implacable enemy who denied your very humanity, gave no hope for a future for you and your children, gave you no citizenship and made you carry an internal passport that was often the main tool used to start leaning on you if the authorities decided to, as the Pass Law system in South Africa gave the police unlimited authority in arresting people at will. I am actually surprised that there were not more Church Street Massacres then there were actually. Because frankly the ANC was nowhere near as accomplished in torture and murder as the Apartheid regime, and the government's history of oppression far exceeds any list of wrongs that could be attributed to those fighting it. I blame the Nationalist Party for creating the climate that created Church Street much more then condemn the ANC for conducting the bombing there. I don't sanction the use of violence as occurred on Church Street, but like violence occurring in occupied France or any other land with brutal, fascist and dictatorial leaders, I understand why these things occurred. I mention the French Resistance for a good reason, because like the ANC they too allied with Communists. As one does not argue with someone throwing you a rope or offering fellowship in fighting oppression in a struggle this intense, you work with them, accept help from them and they you. South Africa was a place where Non-violent civil disobedience training was not allowed or sanctioned, and the fight was against an enemy who thought nothing about brutally gunning down men women and children on March 21, 1960 as they protested the brutality and tyranny of the pass law. According to eyewitness accounts, at about 1:00 a.m. on March 21, "a great number of people had assembled at the tennis court where they were addressed on the objects of the campaign and had explained to them the decision to surrender peacefully to the police for arrest that day." Further eyewitness accounts explain that, "at 1:30 a.m., a Riot Squad with two security staff cars arrived at the scene of the meeting. Without endeavoring to ask anybody what the gathering was about, the police started shooting from their vehicles into the air to frighten and disperse the crowd." Later that morning, "a great number of armed White people invaded the location," patrolling the streets and intimidating people with the obvious intentions of causing retaliation so that they might be afforded an excuse to carry out their objective of smashing by brutal force the opposition to the Pass Laws. Leaders of the Pan African Congress continued their planned march to the police station in accordance with their decision that they were going to surrender themselves for arrest. Hundreds of people followed the leaders singing the South African Black National Anthem. After Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe, the first national president of the PAC, and his aides had been arrested, thousands of unarmed Africans gathered at the police station in Sharpsville. The White police fired on the defenseless men, women, and children. Sixty Africans were killed on the spot and 178 were wounded. More than 80 percent of those shot were shot in the back as they fled. It is because of this incessant act of violence that we commemorate the Sharpsville Massacre. >http://www.finalcall.com/perspectives/sharpsville04-02- 2002.htm
So it was a crime, right?
I do not support violence like that, no. But it was a crime framed in the madness of a million daily crimes in that country, and that government had earlier gunned down defenseless people brutally merely for protesting an unjust law. I understand why it occured, and I put the primary blame for it's occurance were it belongs, on the national party, the ruling party in the South African government of that time.
#62. To: All (#60)
national party=Nationalist Party
I suspect that if the white revolution comes, whites will be exactly as scrupulous as Mandela. Whites will admit to atrocities. Internal party documents will detail brutality in the party's camps, and even point out the inconsistency with the party's principles. But whites won't apologize either. Not this time.
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#6. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
"Po' dumb darkies. The mean average IQ of Africans is 70; for American blacks, 85. Tell them that Jesus was black and they'll believe it. It just makes it easier to others to lead them around by their noses."
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
Storm Front
#10. To: bluegrass (#7)
"A "nazi" site based out of West Palm Beach has the stink of gefilte fish all over it."
#11. To: Ferret Mike (#10)
It is one of Don Black's sites
#12. To: bluegrass (#11)
#13. To: Ferret Mike, christine (#12)
#17. To: bluegrass (#13)
#20. To: Zoroaster (#17)
#22. To: bluegrass (#20)
"Since its creation, Stormfront has served as a veritable supermarket of online hate, stocking its shelves with many forms of anti- Semitism and racism. In its first two years, Stormfront featured the writings of William Pierce of the neo-Nazi National Alliance; David Duke; representatives of the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review and other assorted extremists. Conspiracy-laden discussions of the destruction of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas; the shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, between the FBI and white-separatist Randy Weaver; and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City appeared on the site's Home Page. In one article, Kirk Lyons, defender and self-proclaimed sympathizer of right-wing extremists, likened the events at the Branch Davidian compound to the Nazi destruction of the town of Lidice in Czechoslovakia.8 In another piece, Eustace Mullins, an aged anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who has spread hate for more than 40 years, suggested that the likely party responsible for the bombing in Oklahoma City is the Anti-Defamation League.9 In addition to text articles, early versions of Stormfront housed a library of neo-Nazi graphics available for downloading, a list of phone numbers for racist computer bulletin boards that were not on the Internet, and a short page of links to other hateful Web sites.
#30. To: Ferret Mike (#22)
#32. To: bluegrass (#30)
"Quoting the ADL and Stormfront? You really are a good little commissar wannabe."
#34. To: Ferret Mike, christine, robin, Zipporah, Tauzero (#32)
I admire the good work and advocay of the ADL.
#37. To: bluegrass (#34)
I admire the good work and advocay of the ADL
#40. To: YertleTurtle (#37)
Supporting the ADL? Might as well support AIPAC.
#42. To: bluegrass (#40)
#45. To: YertleTurtle (#42)
#49. To: Ferret Mike (#45)
Explain to me what Mandela and/or Biko's alleged crimes are in your eyes?
#57. To: Tauzero (#49)
"During the week of March 20, 1960, the Pan African Congress requested permission to hold a public meeting on Sunday. The request to meet was refused by South African Government officials. The Pan African Congress decided to launch the Pass Book campaign on March 21 by holding a rally and demonstrated to protest these vicious laws. Unable to hold public meeting, members of the PAC called their members to meet at the Sharpsville Tennis Court grounds. (Sharpsville is the African location known as Vereeniging.)
#58. To: Ferret Mike (#57)
#60. To: Tauzero (#58)
"So it was a crime, right?"
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#67. To: Ferret Mike (#60)
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