Can we talk about the racial undertones?
This has been bugging me for months, but then I'm bugged that it bugs me because the picture is so cute and my bishop told a great story about how the model for Jesus turned his life around after this trip to Africa. Still, though.
posted by Bethylene at 07:37
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OK, I'm lost. Seriously, what am I missing here?
The thing that always throws me off with artistic portrayals of the Savior is that he's so BLONDE! And I just want to ask the artist, hey, have you ever been to Jerusalem? I don't know, does that make me over-zealous and misinformed whenever I cringe at an Aryan Jesus? But the racial thing in this photo - I suspect it raises uncomfortable feelings of quasi-guilt for white privilege and that's why it bothers me so. Then again, at work I cringe everytime one of the very southern black employees says "yessuh" to my manager because it always makes me think of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the subservient, yielding black slave / sharecropper. Hrm...
Interesting.
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