KB - New Portrait lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 [Hook: KB] 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 [Verse 2: KB] 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 [Hook: KB] 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 [Outro: Lisa Sharon Harper & Doctor Jarvis Williams] 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 you are created in the image of God therefore called by God to help steward the world