Before Jesus walked the earth, Christ walked with creation. Long before Roman coins bore the face of Caesar and long before European churches adorned their walls with pale-skinned messiahs, the essence of Christ already existed—not as a crown-wearing conqueror, but as the sacred rhythm between Creator and creation. What Jesus revealed was not new—it was a return. Christ is not a European. Christ is not a political mascot. Christ is not a king enthroned by conquest. Christ is a way of being, and that way is indigenous to the earth itself. Christ Was Before Jesus “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” —John 1:1 This “Word”—the Logos—isn’t just information or doctrine. It is divine pattern. A life aligned with justice, humility, harmony, and truth. Indigenous cultures understood this long before the arrival of missionaries. The Christ pattern was known: In the reciprocity with the land In the respect for the ancestors I...
Watching iShowSpeed in Africa didn’t feel like watching a travel vlog. It felt like a flashback to a muscle memory we never got to make. As Black folks in America, we are the living, breathing collateral of the capitalistic experiment. We weren’t just brought here to build it; we were listed as the capital on its original balance sheets. Our bodies, our breath, our lineage—the initial investment. The entire grotesque project of America was capitalized on the futures it stole from us. So when we talk about "American capitalism," we’re not just critics from the outside. We are its original raw material, now processed into complex, contradictory products: citizens with a receipt, survivors with phantom limb pain for a culture we can sense but not fully grasp. We live inside the beast. We wear its clothes, speak its language, fight its wars, and feed its algorithms. But we are not "of" the beast. And that distinction is a daily, silent civil war. We are perpetually tra...