They're putting in a black Jesus for the wrong goddamn reasons. Just... fucking hell.
My problem is that it is unoriginal and hideous. Its painted by a crazy white chick.
There are many fine depictions of black Jesus in Africa, esp in the Ethiopian church that they could have used, but this choice was deliberate.
This is a fine depiction of Jesus in an African style
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I would have no problems with this.
It brings to mind 2 things.
Firstly, as always social justice doesnt create, it can only subvert, ruin and destroy. The painting in question is a perfect example of that. It isnt a new creation, just a deliberate perversion of the original.
Second Blackness is manifested strictly in terms of Taking From Whites. The original picture is 'blacker' than the Ethiopian one because it takes something from whites. Even though the Ethiopian picture is a genuine icon from an actual African church, its a unique creation entirely unconnected to whites, so therefore it lacks 'blackness'.
Finally id like to point out that the levant is a genetic blender. There is a group of people in the levant that has been there for thousands of years, has never mixed, has never left. They are closest to the face of the israelites of the time. They are the Samaritans.
They look like this.
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