White power structures created a racist Jesus. The man-made white Jesus disallowed them from recognizing the real Christ, whom they wanted to avoid, as Blum describes: Du Bois suggested that southern whites’ racial phobias and their ignorance of human diversity led them not only to confuse African Americans with Middle Easterners, but also to overlook the Son of God. Du Bois believed that white Americans would consider a messiah of Middle Eastern descent as unthinkable as one of black heritage.15 Racism turns white Christians into idol worshippers, and disallows authentic Christian
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