The racist backlash to The Little Mermaid and Lord of The Rings is exhausting and extremely predicta

Not gonna happen. At least not this time.

 

No, that wasn’t one of those challenging questions. I’m genuinely curious if someone at FoxNews asserted that Jesus was “white” as we understand the term today. If so, that is a pretty absurd thing to state with any certainty. At best, we have no real idea what Jesus’ skin tone was. The evidence one way or the other just isn’t there. All we can do is guess based on what people in the Middle East look like today coupled with what we know about human migration patterns through the Middle East over the last 2,000 years. Based on that, I think it’s probable Jesus did not look white, black, or East Asian as we understand those terms today. The most probable look would resemble what Iranian people look like today since that was the primary ethnic group in the area before the Arab, Mongol, Turk conquests.

Edit: when I first wrote my response, I just saw a picture. Saw the video just now.

 

He might not have looked so different from some of his more recent TV and movie portrayals as from Renaissance depictions.

 

There actually is some long standing evidence that Hamilton was at least part black on his mother's side, including old news paper articles where his rivals at the time are quoted calling him racist names, I assumed that's why Hamilton was chosen as the black, rapping forefather...

 

Also true. We will never know for sure. And if Jesus was who he was supposed to be, then he would probably would say if we were debating his race for any more than trivia purposes, then we missed the point.

 

That might very well be. But the fact is, if he were part black (being born in another British colony in the Caribbean, not entirely implausible), then he was no more than 1/8th black at the most. He passed completely as a white man with no one challenging that he was of mixed race. How do I know? Because Hamilton was what we would call in today’s terms a real douchebag. He collected enemies the way some people collect coins. Written evidence of his enemies using that information against him would be everywhere just like it is with Thomas Jefferson. So while not impossible it’s very unlikely.

 

We were telling our daughter, who is too young to have lived through it, about the outrages at Disney World in the 90s because they didn't kick out everyone who is there on Gay Days. I can remember the thought pieces that talked about how Disney had been corrupted. A lot of right wingers really thought that no gay people had never gone to Disney before. They really thought the parks were pure hetero. It's funny

 

Not arguing the historical
Perspective but not quite my point

 

Not sure what point you mean. I was responding to a different poster.

 

I just truly cannot muster up enough energy to care about who gets cast in which role. I don't know how some people do it.

 

I meant to quote the same poster you did…

 

It’s just very upsetting when a black actor takes a role that was originally created for a white actor. I haven’t been this upset since black actors took over the traditional white actor roles of Amos ‘n Andy.

 

Makes me wonder what Sponge Bob Square Pants has to say about it.

Kidding aside the only person who I believe has the strongest case for a dipiction of Jesus is @uftaipan. We have several competing images but there is a point in wanting to dipict Jesus as one of demographic resembelance. The question that comes to mind is how many people would advocate a global religious view that is not promoted as being one of their own?

 

Watching the game today it really pissed me off every time they ran a State Farm commercial. Everybody knows Jake is white.....When they come out with a black Mayhem I will really be pissed.

 

Seriously though, I've noticed that historically color is far less of a concern when it comes to British-based TV and cinema. Example from Bond would be Moneypenny in the last couple flicks.