The Hymns of Ethiopia

By Trinity Williams

There is a rumor going around that

“black people didn’t believe in Christianity

until people from Western Europe colonized them.”

But how if Christianity perpetrates colonialism

& the language is older than King James and

the palms who first preached it?

Our ancestors hummed the hymns of

Ethiopia that the winds whistled on those

porches.

Jesus was a healer, activist, father,

confidant and a man of power but, nota white man.

His hair was nappy, his skin like mine

My skin was kissed by the sun as it baked

just like mine,

My people were mistreated, beat and hated

just like him,

God had to fight and make people believe

of his miracles and his works…if you think

that doesn’t sound like anything a white man

has ever experienced