The White, Cisgender, Heterosexual God and Me.

Khanyisa Mnyaka
4 min readNov 2, 2020

My grandfather doesn’t talk about Jesus’ race during any of his sermons. I don’t care to ask him about it either because I can see from the pictures of Jesus hanging in our small church that Jesus is in fact a white, blue eyed man, with a six pack that looks as strong as that of a professional boxer. All the names in the bible are white names, although my grandfather reads them with a Xhosa accent “UPita…

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Khanyisa Mnyaka

Khanyisa is an entrepreneur, teacher, traveler, writer and spiritual seeker.