‘The Passion’ inaccurately gives Jesus European traits

Columbia, Missouri Daily Tribune ^ | Thursday, April 1, 2004 | Kenya Kimbrough

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Editor, the Tribune:

I remember when my mother said Santa wasn’t real. Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ," I suspect, will make some people experience the shock again. Gibson inaccurately depicts Jesus as European, with straight hair and blue eyes. This is a greater distortion than Elizabeth Taylor’s role as Cleopatra.

Long before Hollywood, sculptures and writings portrayed many gods as black, with African features. Buddha had woolly hair with tight curls or cornrows. India’s Krishna means "black" in Sanskrit. Islam’s Muhammad was "bluish" in color with "frizzy" hair. His grandfather was "black as the night." Moses was black, according to early portraits. The title for the Egyptian god Osiris means "Lord of the Perfect Black." The title for Zeus, the greatest of Greek gods, was "Ethiops," which means "burnt faced." Jesus had woolly hair and brass-colored skin.

Nazareth, Jesus’ hometown, was populated by men who wore dreadlocks and never cut their hair. Nazarene is from nazar, meaning "unshorn." The next time you see a dreadlocked youth walking down the street, rebelling against society wearing baggy pants and shoes untied, then just think that today’s Jesus might look like him.

Tinseltown is not run by historians but rich actors. Gibson sparked the Second Coming by placing Jesus outside of the "church," and we finally get to openly talk about him as a black man on Earth and not some figment of our imagination.

We survived the truth about Santa. Aren’t we old enough to learn the truth about Jesus, too?

Kenya Kimbrough
American Family Rights Association
Kansas City

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I thought Liz taylor did a good job as Cleopatra.

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for those who feel the need to contact Kenya Kimbrough, a proper address is available at the link......

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[Arkie2]

I haven't seen the movie but I read that the actor who played Jesus was specifically chosen for his semitic looks, including brown eyes.

[Paved Paradise]

Jim Caviezel (the actor who played Jesus) has blue eyes but was wearing brown ones for the movie. They also did some movie magic on his nose etc. to make him look more semitic. What's her point anyway? No one knows what he looks like anyway.

[Jerry_M]

I think that Kenya Kimbrough is confusing Nazareth with Nazarite (sometimes spelled Nazirite). It was those who took a Nazarite vow who didn't cut their hair, not those who lived in Nazareth.

[Viking2002]

Hey, Kenya, or Kwanzaa, or Ethiopia, or Noxzema, or whatever the hell your name is - shove your whiny Afrocentric propaganda up your keister. You bore me.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Mouhammad according to Kenya

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Jesus had dreadlocks.

[ptavares]

When "I" saw the Passion of Christ the man that played Jesus had BROWN eyes,,,are you sure you even saw this MOVIE or like most of the people that have a problem with this Movie you've never seen it....

[SouthernFreebird]

Bwahahahahahahahah

[GreyFriar]

Since Cleopatra was a Ptolmey, thus Greek, it is highly unlikely that she was from black african stock. The Ptolmey's had been ruling Egypt for several hundred years before Cleopatra.

Kenya is just doing the black origin of everything bit.

[TopQuark]

No one knows what he looks like anyway.

Why not? Just go to Israel or your nearest synagogue.

[Shermy]

We survived the truth about Santa.

Don't tell her about the Easter Bunny. Could be the last straw.

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Cleopatra had dreadlocks too. You must be mistaken

[Skooz]

He did. I have it on tape.

[Argus]

Besides, everybody knows Jesus was really Irish.

[BSunday]

Kenya Kimbrough,

At the risk of sounding racist, I guess I don't have to guess her ethnic origins, do I ?

[angkor]

Jesus had dreadlocks.

No, I'm afraid you're wrong. He did not.

He looked, as a matter of fact, very much like Jim Caviezel.

I can prove it.

Can you?