Yeshua Was a Dark Brown-Skinned Semitic Refugee One of the earliest images of the Messiah, painted in the Roman catacombs centuries before Europe rewrote the visuals, showing Yeshua (YHWH Saves): a dark-brown skinned, dark curly short-haired Semitic refugee-immigrant from the Galilean ‘ghetto,’ remembered as his own people saw Him, not as later empires rebranded Him.

Charles E. Merrill, founder of Merrill Lynch, spent his life using power intentionally, and his son carried that same ethos into building real inclusion pipelines like A Better Chance. The post-SFFA enrollment crashes at MIT, Yale, and Stanford show what happens when we abandon that intentionality and pretend “neutrality” produces justice. Today’s rollback—DEI bans, court defiance, engineered colorblindness—proves the exclusion pipeline is winning unless we choose to build something else.

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After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions in 2023, Black enrollment at MIT dropped from 15% to 5% in a single year. At Yale, Black a...

This chart ranks eight eras of U.S. history by how deeply church and state were intertwined—from the Colonial Era’s full theocracy (25/25) to the Social Gospel Era’s benevolent entanglement (16/25), showing a near-return today, with 21st-century Christian Nationalism (24/25) approaching theocratic intensity once seen before the Revolution.