JG: Who is the greatest Jew ever, Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ?
TC: Bob Dylan. He's one of the biggest reasons my Dad went into the Panthers. Which ultimately led him to meeting my mom. Which subsequently led to the birth of The One. Us black people have Jews to thank for everything -- even our very existence.
JG: Finally, the words we've been waiting to hear. On behalf of the Jewish people, let me just say, you're welcome. The inevitable follow-up: How, exactly, did Bob Dylan bring your father to the Panthers?
TC: Oh, man, you gotta buy, and possibly read (more concerned about the former than the latter) my book to get that story. You think I do this thing for free, Jeffrey?
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TC: Black Jesus or blond, blue-eyed Jesus? Black Jesus is a tool to get us to believe in the white man's religion. Blond blue-eyed Jesus is, well, blond blue-eyed Jesus. I think I could worship a Cablinasian Jesus.
Yo, Bud - Check out the Black Madonna of Monserrat sometime.
(ps: the locals tried to convince me that the wood had turned black due to aging.)
JG: I love falafel! Next question: What's your favorite Led Zeppelin song?
TC: "The Battle of Evermore." Come on, I played Dungeons & Dragons.
That exchange totally makes up for considering Barry Sanders only the 4th or 5th best running back in NFL history.
I'm still not changing my name to MoeLarryAndDylan.
Hey MLandJ!! That actually was kind of funny. Maybe I was wrong about you. Do you mind if I call you 'Daddy?'
Spacy asks: "Do you mind if I call you 'Daddy?'"
Yes, I mind. That would disgrace my family.
Your family hates you. And you know it.
Jesus Christ was only a Jew in the ethnic, not the religious sense. And even that's a rather trivial point. To call him a Jew, or for that matter to call him White, Black, or whatever, is to overemphasize His humanity at the expence of His divinity, as the Arians did. This is the fashionable error of the modern age, but it is no less an error for all that it is espoused by the chattering classes of the day. Properly speaking, Jesus Christ was the incarnate Son of God, and cannot have been said to belong to any religion at all- he related to God the Father as a son relates to his father.
As for whether His one human parent, St. Mary, was white or black I have no particular opinion.
Also, didn't Bob Dylan didn't he convert to Christianity at some point?
Wow Hector, you really take everything way too seriously, don't you?
Hilarious, but I must say I think we need Billy Dee to confirm whether this statement is correct:
"Obama isn't black. I keep trying to tell people this. No black man could win in Iowa. Did you see him dancing on Ellen? Barack is half of One. I am The One."
But I thought Billy Dee was The One.
Hey -- earlier today I made a comment on this post with some joke dialogue about Jeff Goldbergs love of torture against Arab men. Pretty much the same type of comment that accompanies any comment-enabled post about Goldberg. Way less vicious than the Spencer Ackerman article on the topic.
Now its gone. Poof. It may not have been terribly funny (though I thought it was), but it wasn't slanderous or crude. What's up? Would you prefer that we don't mock other Atlantic bloggers in Ta-Nehisi-Space?
Maybe the crack intern is a neocon, Missing.
I think Stacy meant call you daddy in a different sense, Moe.
They are deleting without notice also on Ambinder - a dupe post got culled.
You're a hip hop fan, and your favorite Zeppelin song was Battle of Evermore? Not something with a ripping John Bonham beat or Jimmy Page riff that would later get sampled? Ocean maybe, or When the Levee Breaks (best drum track ever)?
Dylan? Jesus? Doesn't Sandy Koufax get put on the ballot? Come on!