Thread by @seshanm

#ColourCoding
What does it do to the brown or black self-image when the Son of God is deliberately shown as a white European?

Interesting!

"How Jesus became so white - The Washington Post" washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/…

"many Christians remain hesitant to give up the image of white Jesus. He believes the continued popularity of white depictions of Jesus are “an example of how far in some respects the United States has not moved.”

"At least that’s how he appeared when she was growing up. A copy of Warner E. Sallman’s “Head of Christ” painting hung in her home, depicting a gentle Jesus with blue eyes turned heavenward and dark blond hair cascading over his shoulders in waves."

"The painting, which has been reproduced a billion times, came to define what the central figure of Christianity looked like for generations of Christians in the United States — and beyond."

"But Sallman’s Jesus did not look like black Christians, according to the scholar. Instead, she said, that Jesus looked “like the people who were beating you up in the streets or setting dogs on

“If Jesus is white and God is white,” she said, “then authority is white.”

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