New Portrait Lyrics - Kb

Look, was Christ really buried? 

Is the whole story very fairy and I was just a man? 

Did they really find His bones and they lied to keep the cold 

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

Was He God? Was He not? 

Did He buy us a spot in Heaven? 

Or is all of this a ruse? 

Are we just delusional tools who refuse to believe in the truth 

Or we fools? 

Is all this the white man religion? 

European invention to drive the weak to submission 

How can an African like me get division 

When these preachers owned slaves 

But taught that freedom was Christian 

Christ to the culture 

Christ to the vultures 

Committed genocide with a cross and oldster 

Christ of America 

Christ of the system 

That is not my Saviour that's a politician 

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Christ that the Lord knows 

Christ that was foretold 

Christ that's shoulda come back in His war clothes 

Which Christ do you believe? 

You gotta know before you leave 

Yes He did arise 

Yes He was alive 

Brown Middle Eastern definitely wasn't white 

No, He never married never had any wives 

But committed His life to an interracial bride 

Yes He did rise days after He died 

God of the oppressed and 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 have all failed 

He made us in his own image 

Da Vinci returned a favor 

But He is still risen 

He is still risen 

He is still risen 

Over guns and supremace 

Over all the divisions 

Over the wicked and tenacious 

The real one is living 

Christ of the Galilee 

Christ of the Nazareth 

Christ that will vindicate 

He will make it right again 

Christ that worshipped by the ancient of Africans 

Many men claimed Him 

But then He overclaimed them 

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Christ the Lord knows 

Christ that was foretold 

Christ that shoulda come back in His war clothes 

Which Christ do you believe? 

You gotta chose before you leave 

Now the thing I would argue is that race isn't even real 

It's something that we create 

In order to determine how the polset of 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, in space and land 

And 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 at. 

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