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07/10/2026

IT’S SUNDAY. CHURCHES ARE FULL. BIBLES ARE OPEN. BUT THERE IS ONE THING SOME PASTORS STILL WILL NOT SAY CLEARLY ENOUGH: YESHUA WAS NOT A RACIST.

And no matter what race you are, racism cannot be dressed up as Christianity.

You can wear a cross.

You can know every worship song.

You can shout “Amen” louder than everybody in the building.

But if you believe another human being is beneath you because of skin color, ethnicity, or ancestry, then something in your faith has collided with the teachings of the very man you claim to follow.

That is not politics.

That is Scripture.

Yeshua never taught racial superiority.

He never told His followers that one ethnicity was more human than another.

He never said love your neighbor, unless the neighbor looks different.

In fact, His ministry repeatedly crossed the very boundaries people used to divide themselves.

Start with the Samaritan woman in John 4.

Jews and Samaritans carried deep religious and cultural hostility toward one another.

Yet Yeshua spoke to her.

He listened.

He taught.

He treated her as someone worthy of truth and dignity.

His own disciples were surprised.

Yeshua crossed the boundary anyway.

Then He went even further.

When someone asked:

“Who is my neighbor?”

Yeshua told the story we now call the Good Samaritan.

Think about that carefully.

He made the person from the despised group the moral example.

The religious men passed by.

The Samaritan stopped.

The outsider showed mercy.

Then Yeshua said:

“Go and do likewise.”

That is difficult Scripture for anyone trying to make racial contempt compatible with Christianity.

Then there was the Roman centurion.

Rome occupied Judea.

This man represented the imperial power ruling Yeshua’s people.

Yet when he approached in faith, Yeshua did not respond with ethnic hatred.

He praised his faith.

Then came the Great Commission:

“Go and make disciples of all nations.”

Not one nation.

Not one complexion.

Not one ethnicity.

All nations.

And Revelation gives an even bigger picture:

People from every nation, tribe, people, and language gathered before God.

So where exactly does racial superiority fit?

It does not.

And here is where Sunday morning gets uncomfortable.

A racist can sit inside a church.

A racist can own a Bible.

A racist can quote Scripture.

A racist can call themselves Christian.

People can call themselves anything.

But Yeshua said:

“You will know them by their fruits.”

So examine the fruit.

Racial slurs.

Dehumanization.

Mocking in*******al couples.

Believing your bloodline makes you superior.

Despising people because they are Black.

Despising people because they are White.

Despising Asians.

Despising Latinos.

Despising Africans.

Despising Arabs.

Despising immigrants.

Where exactly is that fruit found in Galatians 5?

Because Scripture says the fruit of the Spirit includes:

Love.
Joy.
Peace.
Patience.
Kindness.
Goodness.
Faithfulness.
Gentleness.
Self-control.

Racial hatred is not hiding somewhere between kindness and goodness.

And 1 John becomes even more uncomfortable:

“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar.”

That is not my wording.

That is Scripture.

You cannot claim to love the God you cannot see while despising the human being standing in front of you.

And this applies to everybody.

A White racist is wrong.

A Black racist is wrong.

An Asian racist is wrong.

A Latino racist is wrong.

An African racist is wrong.

An Arab racist is wrong.

Hatred does not suddenly become holy because your group suffered first.

Pain can explain prejudice.

It does not sanctify it.

History has given almost every community a reason to resent somebody.

If we keep handing that resentment to our children, humanity will simply inherit old enemies forever.

Yeshua offered another way.

Love your enemies.

That command destroys the loophole.

You cannot say:

“I love everyone except those people.”

The moment you add the exception, you have changed the command.

And this matters deeply in America right now.

Race is still one of the easiest things to weaponize.

Social media rewards outrage.

Political tribes reward suspicion.

People are constantly being told who they should fear, hate, blame, or distrust.

But followers of Yeshua should not sound exactly like the loudest angry people online.

We should be able to say:

What happened to Black Americans was wrong.

Antisemitism is wrong.

Anti-Asian hatred is wrong.

Hatred of White people is wrong.

Hatred of immigrants is wrong.

Tribal hatred is wrong.

Ethnic supremacy is wrong.

And we should not have to dehumanize one group in order to defend another.

That is not weakness.

That is consistency.

But there is another side to this.

Having racist beliefs does not mean someone is beyond redemption.

People can change.

Families can grow.

Prejudice can be unlearned.

Hatred can be repented of.

That is part of the Gospel too.

But there is a difference between struggling with prejudice and allowing Yeshua to confront it…

and proudly defending racism while insisting Christianity approves.

It does not.

Following Yeshua means allowing Him to confront whatever in us does not look like Him.

Pride.

Greed.

Lust.

Bitterness.

Hatred.

And yes, racism.

You do not follow Yeshua by dragging your prejudice behind you and asking Him to bless it.

You follow Him by surrendering it.

So here is a Sunday question worth asking.

If Yeshua sat beside you at lunch after church today and heard how your family talks about another race…

would He recognize His teachings?

If He opened your group chat…

would the jokes sound like Him?

If He read your comments under an in*******al couple’s wedding photo…

would He recognize His love?

If He heard how you describe immigrants, Black people, White people, Asians, Africans, Latinos, Arabs, or Jews…

would He hear mercy?

Or contempt?

That question is harder than putting a Bible verse in your bio.

Because faith is not proven by what you post.

It is revealed by how you treat people.

Yeshua was not racist.

He did not preach racial superiority.

He did not command ethnic hatred.

He crossed boundaries.

He honored outsiders.

He condemned hypocrisy.

He elevated mercy.

And He commanded His followers to reach all nations.

So before leaving church today, maybe the prayer should not only be:

“Lord, bless me.”

Maybe it should also be:

“Lord, remove from me every hatred I keep trying to justify.”

Because heaven will not be segregated.

And love for Yeshua cannot become an excuse to hate the people He told you to love.

Pass it on if this made you examine your faith beyond Sunday morning.

06/10/2026

06/10/2026

04/10/2026

In Birmingham at UNIWA's Award Night and celebration of Nigeria's 66 Independence . With my nephew, Mr Kunle Aderemi, UNIWA President , and Fehintola Alabi, his sister. Beautiful outing.

04/09/2026

THE WORLD TAUGHT WOMEN TO COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER BEFORE IT TAUGHT THEM TO LOVE THEMSELVES.

Think about how early it starts.

Who is prettier?

Who is thinner?

Who has better hair?

Who gets more attention?

Who gets chosen?

Who is aging “better”?

Who has the better body?

Who gets more likes?

And before many girls even understand who they are, they are already being taught to measure themselves against another girl.

That is not confidence.

That is conditioning.

For centuries, women have been ranked by beauty, class, skin tone, youth, body shape, marriageability, clothing, hair texture, and social status.

Then modern advertising perfected the formula.

Show one woman.

Tell another woman she should look like her.

Sell the solution.

Magazines did it.

Television did it.

Beauty companies did it.

Hollywood did it.

Now social media can do it every few seconds.

Scroll.

Compare.

Adjust.

Repeat.

And somewhere in that cycle, women were encouraged to see another woman’s beauty as evidence of their own lack.

That has consequences.

Friendships damaged by comparison.

Girls growing up believing attention equals worth.

Women shrinking themselves around women they secretly admire.

Sisters competing for approval.

Women apologizing for aging in a world where every human being is supposed to age.

Imagine how many years of confidence have been lost because women were taught to look sideways at each other instead of inward at themselves.

Here is the truth:

ANOTHER WOMAN’S BEAUTY DOES NOT TAKE AWAY YOURS.

Her confidence does not reduce yours.

Her body does not insult yours.

Her success is not your failure.

Her youth is not your expiration date.

Her attention does not make you invisible.

You were never supposed to win womanhood.

There is no trophy for being the most beautiful woman in the room.

And the room keeps changing anyway.

Real power begins when comparison loses its grip.

When women can look at each other and say:

You are beautiful.

And so am I.

You are powerful.

And so am I.

You are allowed to shine.

And so am I.

That is freedom.

The most powerful generation of women may not be the one that finally meets every beauty standard.

It may be the one that finally refuses to compete with one.

Teach girls early:

You do not have to defeat another woman to become yourself.

You do not have to be chosen to be valuable.

You do not have to be the prettiest person in the room to belong there.

And you do not have to dim another woman’s light to prove that yours exists.

If this speaks to you, pass it to a woman who needs the reminder.

ANOTHER WOMAN’S BEAUTY DOES NOT TAKE AWAY YOURS.

03/09/2026

O Sacrament most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving, Be every moment Thine!

03/09/2026

On holidays in London, paid a visit to my uncle.

11/07/2026

Some people use history like a costume.

They put it on when it makes them feel powerful.

Then take it off when the records ask for receipts.

Let’s talk about Afro-Indigenous people.

Not internet folklore.

Not “we were here first” fantasy.

Real history.

Real communities.

Real people.

Most people have no idea.

Afro-Indigenous history in the Americas began after Africans arrived through the violence of the Atlantic world.

That matters.

Because Indigenous peoples were already here.

African people were brought here.

And in the middle of colonization, slavery, warfare, escape, survival, marriage, adoption, alliance, and resistance, some African and Indigenous worlds met.

Sometimes they protected each other.

Sometimes they married into each other.

Sometimes they fought beside each other.

Sometimes they were pulled into conflict by empires that wanted land from one group and labor from another.

That is the part people rarely discuss.

Afro-Indigenous history is not a myth.

But “we were here first” is.

There is a difference.

Real Afro-Indigenous people are found across the Americas.

The Garifuna of Central America trace their story to African and Indigenous Caribbean roots.

Black Seminoles emerged through African-descended people and Seminole communities in Florida, resistance, and survival.

In Mexico, especially places like Guerrero, Afro-Indigenous communities carry histories tied to land, farming, colonial labor systems, and local identity.

This is not just about DNA.

It is about food.

Land.

Language.

Memory.

Survival.

In Guerrero, researchers have shown how Afro-Indigenous identity is connected to agricultural practices, the legacy of haciendas, and community knowledge passed down through generations.

Think about that.

While some people online are arguing over who gets to claim what, real Afro-Indigenous communities are still planting, harvesting, organizing, and protecting memory through land.

That is history you can touch.

History you can taste.

History that grows from the soil.

But the record is also honest.

Black and Indigenous relationships were not always simple.

There were alliances.

There were families.

There was shared resistance.

But there were also tensions, slavery, exclusion, land disputes, and political conflicts.

Real history does not need to be perfect to be powerful.

It only needs to be true.

So yes, Afro-Indigenous people are real.

They are not new.

They are not imaginary.

They are not social media inventions.

But no, that does not mean African-descended people were the original Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Indigenous nations were here first.

Africans arrived later through one of the most brutal systems the world has ever seen.

Then history did what history always does.

It created complicated families.

Complicated communities.

Complicated identities.

And complicated truths that refuse to fit inside lazy internet slogans.

Some people are afraid of the records because the records may show that most of their ancestors were African.

There is no shame in that.

African ancestry is not something to run from.

Indigenous ancestry is not something to pretend.

And history is not something to steal because you want a better story.

The better story is already there.

It is survival.

It is resistance.

It is Black people and Indigenous people meeting under impossible conditions and still creating life.

It is communities that remembered the forest, the river, the farm, the drum, the language, the ceremony, and the ancestors.

That is Afro-Indigenous history.

Not fantasy.

Not theft.

Not internet mythology.

A real chapter of the Americas that deserves respect.

The more you read, the harder it becomes to repeat myths.

Pass it on. 🌎