[Verse 1: KB]

Look, was Christ really buried?

Is His whole story very fairy and that was just a man?

Did they really find His bones and then lied to keep the code

Or did He walk out of a tomb to a throne?

Was He God? Was He not?

Did He buy us a spot into Heaven or is all this a ruse?

Are we just delusional dudes who refuse

To believe in the truth, are we fools?

Is all this the white man religion?

European invention to drive the weak to submission

How can an African like me get the vision

When these preachers owned slaves

But taught that freedom was Christian?

Christ of the culture, Christ to the vultures

Committed genocide with a cross and a holster

Christ of America, Christ of the system

That is not my Savior, that's a politician

[Chorus: KB]

Christ that the Lord knows

Christ that was foretold

Christ that's sure to come back in His war clothes

Which Christ do you believe?

You gotta know before you leave

[Verse 2: KB]

Yes, He did arrive, yes, He was alive

Brown Middle Eastern, definitely wasn't white

No, He never married, He never had any wives

But committed His life to a interracial bride

Yes, He did rise days after He died

God of the oppressed, even in it, He still thrives

Died as a criminal from the hood part of town

What can I say? Yes, He is God

From the womb to the tomb to the throne

You can go to the moon but you can't hold to His bones

Nobody owns a saint, portraits are all failing

He made us in his image, Da Vinci returned the favor

But He is still risen, He is still risen, He is still risen

Over the guns and supremacists, over all the division

Over the wicked intentions, the real One is livin'

Christ of the Galilee, Christ of the Nazareth

Christ that will vindicate, He will make it right again

Christ that was worshipped by the ancient of Africans

Many men claimed Him but did He ever claim them?

[Chorus: KB]

Christ that the Lord knows

Christ that was foretold

Christ that's sure to come back in His war clothes

Which Christ do you believe?

You gotta know before you leave

Let's leave

[Outro: Lisa Sharon Harper & Doctor Jarvis Williams]

Now the thing I would argue is that race is not even real

It's something that we create in order to determine how the polis, the people, will live together on this land it's a political construct

What's real is ethnicity, what's real is the people groups who move through time and space and land that are shaped by their experiences together

So I would argue we need to reclaim ethnicity

Yeah, He is the Messiah and that what is prioritized and that these are the categories that we have to work with. But Jesus doesn't sit nicely and neatly with our categories

And Scripture tells us clearly if you are human then you are created in the image of God and therefore called by God to help steward the world