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Race & Ethnicity

Jilly_in_VA

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7. If Jesus came to Cleveland

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Mon May 15, 2023, 01:11 PM

May 2023

(or Detroit, or most any big city in the US) he'd most likely be Black nowadays. Just saying. I mean, since he was among the poor and a tradesman. Or maybe he'd be Latino. In any case, not blonde and blue-eyed.

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Stained glass window shows Jesus Christ with dark skin, stirring questions about race in New England [View all] Jilly_in_VA May 2023 OP

Well, as has been pointed out about "Black Cleopatra"-- viva la May 2023 #1

And so...early American whites well knew Jesus was a brown man...The whitewashing of the new Alexander Of Assyria May 2023 #2

Ben Carson's Jesus - not the evangelicals' blond, blue-eyed Jesus keithbvadu2 May 2023 #3

every culture creates its gods in the image of that culture. white culture, white jesus. black msongs May 2023 #4

How would a middle eastern Jew be white? dlk May 2023 #5

Cleveland Jesus - that's what my uncle calls the "model" white Jesus of the US. Probatim May 2023 #6

If Jesus came to Cleveland Jilly_in_VA May 2023 #7