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Re: WHITE LADY DECLARES SANTA AND JESUS WERE BOTH WHITE |
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Posted by SLRT on Fri Dec 13 11:12:21 2013, in response to WHITE LADY DECLARES SANTA AND JESUS WERE BOTH WHITE, posted by streetcarman1 on Fri Dec 13 10:04:54 2013. If you're talking political correctness, then I guess the issue of the "color" of Jesus and "Santa" is important.If you are talking history, than the humans now depicted as Jesus and Santa were almost certainly "white," in the modern understanding of that racial term. I would say that if it makes you happy, for yourself or your children, think of these figures, or G-d for that matter, as looking the way you want them to look. No reason in the world a person of color shouldn't be a department store Santa, for example. "Jesus," or should I better say Joshua or J'shua or Nazareth, the radical rabbi who many believe to have been the Jewish Mosiach, is a little more difficult. Jews weren't considered white a century or so ago, and depictions of J'shua with Nordic features are more problematic to me than whether you wish to think of Him as black or white. Perhaps if J'shua were depicted as a Jewish caricature as in pre-Nazi Europe it would be instructive. Now THAT could certainly make people think about their bigotry. Perhaps "Jesus," who almost no one argue was not a Semite, looked like this AMERICAN post card of only a century ago (1911), at least you if shaved off His beard. Can you dig it?  |
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