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Race & Ethnicity

viva la

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1. Well, as has been pointed out about "Black Cleopatra"--

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun May 14, 2023, 05:09 PM

May 2023

the skin color of people in the Middle East and North Africa is closer to "dark" than "light."

The Scandinavian Jesus of the last millennium was the real travesty.

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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