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The Great Replacement Theory Debunked

Whites were not first

By Arlo HenningsPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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My parents were white supremacists. I have family and one friend who admits to being a white supremacist.

I assume you know what a white supremacist is.

What is the source of this mythological ideology?

I’ve concluded that certain people fear not being better than other people. If their religion, tribe, and media support that viewpoint then why change or attempt to be better?

So where do white supremacists get off on being God’s chosen and deserve an automatic one-up in life and the next?

In a recent public health survey, 55% of whites feel they’re being discriminated against. Yet, 84% have never experienced the discrimination they rant about.

Let’s start with God

The Christian Identity movement — which claimed that northwestern Europeans were directly descended from the biblical tribes of Israel and that the impending Armageddon will produce a final battle of whites against nonwhites — was the dominant religious viewpoint of white supremacists in the United States.

How that view got started and gained momentum is beyond this essay.

The concept of a unified White race did not achieve universal acceptance in Europe when it first came into use in the 17th century, or in the centuries afterward. Nazi Germany regarded some European peoples such as Slavs as racially distinct from themselves.

Before the modern age, no European people regarded themselves as “White”, but defined their race, ancestry, or ethnicity in terms of their nationality.

There is no accepted standard for determining the geographic barrier between White and non-White people.

Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable “White race” as socially constructed. As a group with several potential boundaries, it is an example of a fuzzy concept. — Wiki

Europeans today are a mix of the blending of at least three ancient populations of hunter-gatherers and farmers who moved into Europe in separate migrations over the past 8000 years.

Before Whites were white they were black

In 2005 Scientists discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology’s most enduring mysteries.

Africa: the mother of humanity

It wasn’t until I visited South Africa in 1994 and met Credo Mutwa, a Zulu Shaman I learned about the Zulu creation myth.

He explained Blacks descended from the stars.

In his book “Song of the Stars” (a memoir of prophecies, dreams, and mythology). Earth was visited by ancient Chitauri astronauts. Credo explains the explorers such as what star they came from. How they seeded life in Southern Africa.

This happened thousands of years before there were white people.

Credo Mutwa

Science

The hominin family tree has deep roots in Africa. The earliest fossil of our genus, Homo, yet found is a 2.8-million-year-old jaw fragment uncovered in East Africa. Our species, Homo sapiens, didn’t appear till far up the tree, branching off at least 260,000 years ago. Where exactly in Africa that happened, however, remains up for debate.

Back to God

That Jesus Christ was white is based on an iconic painting by Warner E. Sallman’s “Head of Christ.”

His painting depicts a gentle Jesus with blue eyes turned heavenward and dark blond hair cascading over his shoulders in waves.

The painting became the most popular in the 20th Century and was adopted by the Church as the de facto image of Jesus Christ.

There is nothing in the Bible that says anything about the color of Jesus Christ’s skin. I take that as it didn’t matter and we should see it as divine teaching.

The Bible: Revelation 1:14–15 Jesus’s skin was a darker hue and his hair was woolly in texture. The hairs of his head, it says, “were white as white wool, white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace.”

The Bible was later used to justify slavery.

“Christianity was proslavery,” said Yolanda Pierce, the dean of the divinity school at Howard University. “So much of early American Christian identity is predicated on a proslavery theology. From the naming of the slave ships, to who sponsored some of these journeys including some churches, to the fact that so much of early American religious rhetoric is deeply intertwined . . . with slaveholding: It is proslavery.”

There is no basis for white supremacy. It has no place in our world. It is a myth. For-profit and power leaders and media pray on the fears of the gullible.

For some whites to think they’re born superior is one of mankind’s greatest hoaxes and tragedies.

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About the Creator

Arlo Hennings

Author of 2 non-fiction books, composer of 4 albums, expat, father, MFA (Creative Writing), B.A.

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