The notion that the biblical Israelites were comprised of an African-based ethnically 十 mixed community—one that would have been classified as Black by modern racial standards —has been a quiet narrative in Black Christian HUST spaces since the Europeans forced CORNER PODCAST With DJ SBU Christianity upon West Africans in North America. The nineteenth-century former slave Bishop Henry McNeal Turner offered the first notable theological vocalization of biblical blackness. He said, "We had rather believe in no God, or ... believe that all nature is God than to believe in the personality of a God, and not to believe that He is a Negro." Albert Cleage's 1968 public proclamation cited that Jesus and the entire Israelite family were Black. - @figb01